FREEDOM

SYNOPSIS

Nora walks out on her family without a word of explanation in FREEDOM, the second film from German director Jan Speckenbach (Die Vermissten). Driven by an irresistible force, the seeminglynormal wife and mother leaves behind a shell-shocked husband and a pair of baffled children in Berlin, moving to a random city and totally changing her identity in order to pursue an entirely new life. Nora roams through a museum in Vienna, has sex with a young man and hitchhikes randomly on to Bratislava. She hides her identity by telling little lies. She changes her look, finds work as a chambermaid and makes friends with a young Slovakian stripper, Etela, and her husband Tamás, a cook. Meanwhile, in Berlin, her lawyer husband, Philip (Hans-Jochen Wagner), their teenage daughter Lena (Rubina Labusch) and younger son Jonas (Georg Arms) attempt to go about their lives carefully skirting the Nora-shaped hole in the family. As Nora digs into her independent existence — complete with a new look and a new job that have little to do with her old ones — Philip struggles to adapt to his own new life, troubling court cases, his role as a single parent and an affair that tests the idea of fidelity, all while becoming more and more obsessed with finding out why Nora left. Will Nora find true freedom? And will Philip find her?