Rita, Lilian, and Roberta are invited to a friend’s wedding on a riverboat in Berlin.  Rita gets into a fight with her ex-boyfriend after running into him and the three end up getting off the boat.  When their car breaks down and they are unable to find a hotel room, they roam the streets of Berlin and are confronted by the scars of the past revealed after the fall of the Wall in a city where something new is brewing.   Like the director’s intention which she states as “I don’t want to tell a story. No total identification with the people on screen. Recognition, sure. A test set-up”, the film relies on the improvised acting of three different characters in front of the camera.  

Pia Frankenberg (1957~) Born in Köln, Germany
After taking acting classes in Hamburg, she worked in various independent theater groups.  She established her own music and film company in 1979.  Her feature film Not Nothing without You was invited to the Venice Film Festival and received the Max Ophüls Prize for Best German-Language Newcomer Film.  From 1994, she focused on writing and published various books including Die Kellner & Ich (The Waiters and I) and Nora.