Sechswochenamt

Following her mother’s death, Lore spends six weeks in her Rhineland home to fulfil the deceased’s final wish. In doing so, she must stand her ground against entrenched family structures and a bureaucracy paralysed by the first wave of Covid. Six weeks of a state of emergency. They begin to slip by, and it seems that Lore is starting to live in an absurd symbiosis with the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic. Six weeks in which she learns to allow herself to grieve, so as not to be consumed by it. In which she learns that the finiteness of life must be planned for and that there is no answer to the question: how does one grieve properly?