Third Picture

When a viral video of a student threatening his classmates surfaces online, the school spirals into escalating violence. Crushed by the pressure of teachers and parents, three outcasts take refuge in a nearby forest. There, play hardens into ritual and pain becomes an escape, until old wounds surface and the boundaries between them are redrawn.

Martha is online and as long as she is connected to the main unit her life continues – monotonous, convenient, perfect. Nevertheless the well maintained system gets disrupted and Martha herself becomes the problem. The calculated consequence: offline.

"Don't go out on the night of the Ghost Festival." A warning that all children with Chinese mothers are all too familiar with. 18-year-old Ming feels like the only weirdo in the small German town. On this midsummer night, after a disastrous party, she stumbles upon strange beings... In this surreal moment, she realizes who she truly is.

Inspired by the concept of smooth and striated space by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari the film plays with different spaces and reflects on the power of mental and physical barriers.