Somewhere on the outskirts of Berlin, a self-proclaimed priest is preaching to a group of people with addiction and mental-health problems in a run-down building that houses a psychosocial support group. A recent arrival at the facility, which aims to be both a home and a religious community for its residents, is Egon, who is struggling with a psychotic disorder. He cannot sleep, refuses to help on the farm, won’t wash, and has trouble following the priest’s instructions. Egon, however, claims to have conversations with Jesus in which the latter condones his defiant behaviour.
Through Egon’s eyes, directing duo David and Saša Vajda depicts a community of careworn and scarred fellow sufferers whose stories make tangible the terrible reality behind the film’s fiction.
(Berlin Film Festival)