After a young management consultant involuntarily stumbles over the roots of his identity in Muotathal, he struggles just like a fatefully interwoven "gothic girl" to break out of the narrowness of the valley and make peace with the past.
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Johannes Franke
Jan Keplitz
Annina Walt
Tonja Imhof
Noëmi Steffen
Judith
Ingo Ospelt
Alois Gwerder
Herbert Leiser
Noah Beeler
Pascal
Manuela Biedermann
Doris
Benjamin Mathis
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