Lebendkontrolle

Summary

Outside

Mark is serving a prison sentence of several years. The only ray of light in his
otherwise dull routine is the possibility of seeing his girlfriend Jessica again.
The night before Mark is granted prison leave, his older cellmate, Boxer,
gives him the last of his savings, extracting a promise from Mark to hand the
money to his daughter. Mark agrees. But in fact his act of friendship only
leads Mark back down the road he thought he had put behind him. The
more the story progresses, the more the film turns into the portrait of a convict
whose brief spell of freedom breaks him.

Source: 60. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)