Six years ago, a young couple left the city to start over in the countryside. They dreamed of creating their own island, of finding a place of refuge from a now-threatening outside world. An old house was to be transformed into a small paradise, friends and allies wanted to follow so they could build a new community together. Today, however, the Reichsflagge of old Imperial Germany is flying only fifty meters from their children’s room, and anxiety has taken hold. They are faced with a choice: return or retreat. Or is it still possible for them to root themselves deeper into the village community? Their resources are limited, their questions enormous. How much love do we still have for each other? Can we feel safe and secure in our own home? When, they ask themselves, did we take a wrong turn? They try to remember – and this act of remembering is their final attempt to recover a common reality. Or to prove, at the very least, that it exists at all. In search of the truth, they get dangerously close to each other; while timelines fall into one another, they begin to totter themselves. They fail because of the world, the past and each other – yet, in this failure, they keep each other alive.
World Premiere 28/November 2025
Part of 7th Berliner Herbstsalon ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE
Photo: Esra Rotthoff