Daughters

Agnes (Corinna Kirchhoff), a teacher from the Hessian province, comes to Berlin. She is to identify a dead girl. The police suspect that it is her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia (Dzamilja Sjöström), who has run away from home. It is not Lydia. Nevertheless, Agnes stays in the city. Driven by the hope of finding her daughter somewhere. A desperate search begins. Station missions, drug centers, contact points for the homeless. Places that Agnes normally avoids. Places that frighten her. The worst: not knowing. Ines (Kathleen Morgeneyer) has lived in this city for years. Often on the street. Sometimes with people who give her shelter. A convinced parasite of this society. But claims to be a painter. The paths of these two women cross. Ines does not leave Agnes' side. Ines invades Agnes' life with penetrating matter-of-factness, as if it were her own. Agnes lets it happen. The unknown appears to her inexplicable, strange, threatening and yet somehow familiar. A strange relationship of attraction and repulsion begins to develop between the two women. Agnes is confused. She loses her orientation. Where and why has Ines come to her? Is there a connection between the stranger and her daughter? Should she continue looking for her daughter? Why doesn't she just show Ines the door? Agnes has to make a decision...