Branko Samarovski

13-year-old Roma boy Ernst is sent to a mental sanatorium in Nazi Germany. There he is kept under the watchful eye of Dr. Werner Veithausen (Sebastian Koch, The Lives of Others), who has been tasked with carrying out the early stages of the Nazi's euthanasia program.

Haneke's articulate critique of the isolating effects of western society, the media and television in particular, is composed of an intricate series of unrelated scenes, culminating in an apparently motiveless act of violence.