The Story of My Wife

Jakob Störr is a hard-boiled Dutch ship's captain. One day, he makes a bet in a café to marry the first woman who enters. Unsuspectingly, young Lizzy walks in the door... What follows is a highly emotional marital drama: Jakob doesn't know how to deal with his wife's beauty and inscrutability and is torn between intimate love and mistrust. Lizzy, who is only too aware of her subtle power, struggles with conflicting feelings. Passion, misunderstanding and jealousy run their course. The film title is misleading: this is less about the story of "my wife" and more about the story of Jakob, the husband. The film is told from Jacob's perspective, it is his point of view that the camera adopts. We learn very little about Lucy, she remains a mystery (to him): does she love him? What is she up to while he is at sea? Is she as fake as he believes in the increasingly dark moments of his marriage? On their wedding night, Jakob and Lizzy play "sailor's poker": whoever loses has to take off an item of clothing. This is the beginning of their marriage, in which the partners constantly stare at each other, want to dominate the other, while misunderstanding each other and sometimes playing with the wrong cards.