Overview

• The film is scheduled to debut in German cinemas on August 7 following its 2024 festival run that earned it the Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino at Filmfest München.
• The cast features local farmworkers speaking endangered Hohenlohisch alongside Johanna Wokalek as the only professional actor, lending rare authenticity to the drama.
• Bauer’s deliberate use of the 4:3 aspect ratio and unhurried, observational pacing confines the frame to intensify the characters’ lived realities.
• The narrative centers on three generations of women who navigate daily farm labor, challenge gendered expectations and confront the economic precarity of small-scale agriculture.
• A striking scene depicts a hay bale fire being extinguished with milk, echoing real protests against collapsing milk prices and underscoring rural economic distress.