Daniel Mezger

"Horror films begin like this" - A small gas station somewhere in the north. Winter. The last bus has left the village before the long night begins. Only the elderly remain and defy the winter in front of their TVs. But now, a young woman does not want to take the last bus. Joana has taken care of the gas station during the summer, knows the place from before. She does not want to return to the city and to the life that she led there. She wants to stay here, wants to find herself. Luke, one of the old people, tries to dissuade her from her plan:
"You're too young for such a night. The night is too long. "

It will disturb the order of the place, will disturb their well-earned rest. But she is not the only one who doesn’t want to go, because there is someone else who does not want to take the last bus. A young man suddenly appears, a man whom no one knows and who does not speak to anyone. The bus leaves, the long night begins. The mysterious stranger comes forward. Joana is torn – is he disturbing her self-chosen solitude, or is he the man with whom she could be happy? And if so, how does happiness work? The frivolous old Josephine is enchanted by what she regards as a secret love story, Luke is jealous and worried about Joana, and Markus, the shopkeeper, has his own explanation for the presence of the stranger who makes him nervous. Things have reached the tipping point.

Daniel Mezger focuses on a young woman's search for herself and also creates wonderful roles for three old actors. A piece, laconic, dark, oblique, and at the same time, a sort of love story.