Journalist and single mother Marga is not particularly excited when her boss sends her to interview aspiring rock singer Anne. Anne is a trained machinist and lives in East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, a neighborhood famous for its alternative artistic communities. Marga is surprised when Anne gives unconventional and provoking answers to routine interview questions. When Anne's ex-boyfriend Robert, a witty, unpublished poet shows up, Marga becomes way more interested in her interview assignment. A love triangle comedy set in the bohemian East Berlin Prenzlauer Berg combined with 1980s punk rock music á la Nina Hagen that comments on East German taboo topics, including environmental issues. The film offers references not only to Konrad Wolf’s Solo Sunny but also to international film history, including Billy Wilder, Woody Allan and Ernst Lubitsch.

Scripted by Stefan Kolditz (Burning Life, Dresden), this comedy is inspired by the real story behind the making of Konrad Wolf’s classic Solo Sunny (1978-79). Wolf’s scriptwriter, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, had read an unpublished interview by journalist Jutta Voigt with Sanije Torka, a mechanic apprentice who later studied performance arts and was cast in DEFA films in the 1970s and 1980s.

Content warning: nudity, body shaming, prejudicial language.