WINTER SLEEPERS

In a small skiing village in the mountains of Germany, winter has descended on its inhabitants.

LAURA (Marie-Lou Sellem) is a nurse and aspiring actress who lives with REBECCA (Floriane Daniel), a translator. REBECCA is currently involved with handsome ski instructor MARCO (Heino Ferch), who has lately been sinking further and further into the couch in front of the TV.

On the perimeter is RENÉ (Ulrich Matthes), a projectionist at the local movie theater, who deals with his lack of short term memory by constantly photographing the world around him.

Not far away, lives local farmer THEO (Josef Bierbichler), a man struggling to keep his family happy and fed. One day he heads out with a horse in a trailer hitched to the back of his car. Also in the trailer, hiding, is his young daughter who stowed away without permission. On a slippery road, things are about to change. A chain reaction has begun, a door has been opened, and the hand of fate has entered the game as an invisible player...



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