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Max would have stayed on his lonely alp forever. Then this Yankee puts a flea in his ear and tells him that he can have any woman with an edelweiss. Max has an edelweiss. ...She lives in Rome and has the unusual name Maria. But unfortunately not only noble intentions. It's a matter of life and death. Max chooses Edelweiss and wins Maria as his wife. Everything looks like a happy ending, but Max finds himself in the far reaches of Siberia... He never wanted to go there. Not without Maria anyway, and in a deadly showdown Max follows her trail of blood... Nothing should be spared in this black slapstick. Certainly not love.

In the desolate Icelandic highlands, two lowbrow lovers lose their ride, a suited suicide his trigger finger, and a nuclear family their center. Losing their way and their reasons, they fall apart while coming together. A drama rich in comedy, arid plains, and empty stomachs.

After the death of his mother, Peter K. is threatened with eviction from her home where he cared for her. He struggles to defend his refuge from his estranged sister, the city government, and finally, armed po- lice. His conspiracy theories and writings spiral into a violent reality, making him a renegade celebrity. His growing fear and solitude bring on childhood nightmares, while his court battle reveals a dark family past.

Portrait of a house for unwed mothers in the Canton Jura.