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Review

Jan Krüger (Light Gradient) directs this fascinating character study and moving road drama about a middle-aged German woman and her missing son’s former lover — an unlikely couple, bound together in their search for a shared loved one.

After not hearing from her son, Simon, a distraught Valerie elicits the reluctant help of Simon’s former lover Jens. The two travel to Marseille on the French Riviera, the last place Simon, a medical doctor, lived. High-strung and fearing the worse, Valerie has barely accepted her son’s gayness and having his former boyfriend around only adds to her stress.

Jens has his own mixed feelings for his ex. He takes excursions in search of nightly casual sexwhere he encounters an Arab boy who recently had an affair with Simon.

With Simon’s apartment empty, his car abandoned, and him on leave from the hospital, only questions are left: Did he leave for North Africa? Was he abducted or killed? Or did he just want to disappear? Folowing leads that go nowhere, the search becomes both more about Simon’s life as well as a developing parental kinship between Valerie and Jens. This involving story which ultimately poses more questions than answers.

 -- Raymond Murray