The Drifters

Greta M. (Mira Partecke), 40, a woman in Berlin with a postmodern, brittle architect's biography, loses her job. She is also fired from the call center. Like Don Quixote, she struggles against sinister forces: her son, dangerous motherhood, the job application coach, the thwarted architecture of the new Berlin (Townhäuser, Humboldtforum, social city limits) and, last but not least, her own paranoia and status anxiety about being a woman without a job. She drinks and drifts through her life between conformity and contradiction. On this tour de force between call center, job search, job center, coach, architecture offices, school, pubs and drifts through suburban areas she meets the "city of women". The film precisely shows a picture of time and society without working with the conventions of social realism.