I Was at Home, But...

Thirteen-year-old Phillip (Jakob Lassalle) vanishes for a week, then walks back into his mother's life without a word about where he has been. Astrid (Maren Eggert) and his teachers are left holding questions none of them knows how to ask him. Angela Schanelec lets the household go on around the silence, and what is at risk is whether a mother and a son can still reach each other.