Michael Neuenschwander

Spring 1945, Swiss ambassador Heinrich Zwygart flees bombed-out Berlin after serving eight years in the capital of the Reich, a time during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. Haunted by his past, struggling to secure a future, but driven by his ambition, he feels the trap closing in. He made it through the war, but will he survive peace?

At a barbecue event with his banker friends and their wives, an investment banker learns that his Danish au pair threatens to blow the whistle on her love affair with his boss, starting a spiral of bribery and intrigue.

In the dephts of a mid-life crisis as he hits his forties, Zurch filmmaker Stefan Keller is obliged to take a second job due to financial problems. Sent on a mission to assess youth hostels, anonymously, he travels all over Switzerland just before the Christmas holidays. This journey proves to be an odyssey.