Red flags above the Reichstag, sprinting to the train, let’s go to provincial east Germany! After some risky business in the capital, leftist performance artist Tine goes back to her hometown, the village of Bad Kleinen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. While there’s much less to do there, she never gets bored between village Nazis and fans of east-nostalgia. When the surprising find of a bog body puts everyone in an uproar, tristesse is truly gone. Suddenly, Tine and the village community need to face the ghosts of their own past.

The feature film debut by director Laura Laabs defies all conventions: it skillfully uses the unlimited freedom of motion picture and weaves complex strands of narrative and time. With unbound joy in experimentation, it ignites into a firework that comments on the medium film itself and the (east-)German history, present and past.