In times when everyone is constantly filming themselves and stories begin with the self, we meet filmmaker Sophie. Suffering from a broken heart, she tries to devote herself fully to her work. She wants to find a subject that truly interests her and seems meaningful. She goes looking around her apartment block and, alongside amusing neighbours who invite her to tarot sessions, also finds Gabriel from next door. The unhappy theatre director, going through a creative crisis, is shown repairing his car, searching for the meaning of his play, reciting and then scrapping lines, and pushing actors to their limits. The landscape in the midst of the Sisyphean toil – that art so often is – is disrupted by bursting geysers. And so Sophie, too, begins anew time and again, interrupting herself and thus freeing herself from seeking the single »correct« narrative. Whilst a director’s ego is deconstructed almost as a side note, the threads of her own life story begin to weave themselves anew. It’s as if they can find their own way if just left to do so – as if things fall into place when no attempt is made to optimise or devise them. This gem of a humorous documentary hails from Canada. Its lightness and clever wit make this film exceptional, a real gift; it shows us that decisions are often made unconsciously, that artistic creation is constantly influenced by life’s coincidences, and that the beauty of the moment can never be pre-planned.

German premiere