Barbara Albert‘s big-screen adaptation of Julia Franck’s bestseller will be in competition at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival, which runs from 23rd October to 1st November.
Synopsis :
Why does a woman abandon her little boy in a train station at the end of the war in 1945? Helene has Jewish origins and experiences her transition to adulthood, as well as love, in Berlin during the war. The twists of fate and a marriage of convenience will gradually deprive her of her own identity.
