"What does happiness mean?"
Noah, 35, retreats to a beloved lakeside cabin to quietly end it all. But when his ex-wife Lizzy arrives unannounced, his carefully laid exit unravels — in ways neither of them saw coming.
Social & External
The people behind it
Jannis Gerner
Noah
Marie Nasemann
Lizzy
Constanze Lindner
Polizistin
Björn Hopf
Polizist
Ivy Lissack
Sanitäterin
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