Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa and Alexander Beyer
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Best Cinematography, Best Sound at German Film Awards 2019
Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at Austrian Film Awards 2019
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Panorama), Label Europa Cinemas and Heiner Carow Prize at Berlinale 2018
Rike - 40, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike's everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a momentous decision.