The Forest for the Trees

Melanie Pröschle (Eva Löbau) has just taken her first teaching job at a school in Karlsruhe, and she badly wants the students and her neighbors to like her. Maren Ade follows her through classrooms where nobody listens and a flat where her friendly overtures to Tina (Daniela Holtz) land awkwardly. Each small rebuff costs her a little more of the hopeful person who arrived.