Abbe, 62 years old, a successful Frankfurt businessman and cosmopolitan, sees himself as German. His Iranian roots are buried. One day, when a distant relative who had just arrived from Iran visits him, his life is thrown into disarray. The visitor is inscrutable, entangled in contradictions and stumbles from one emergency to the next. Soon Abbe's life only revolves around his relative's problems. Only gradually does the young man's true story become clear to him, and he begins to understand him and himself…

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The Short Story Night combines high-quality, exciting short stories with a relaxed atmosphere: Welcome to a special cinema evening in the Cologne Filmhaus! We are looking forward to five short stories from five wonderful authors! About the authors: Lana Lux is a German-speaking writer, illustrator and presenter of Ukrainian-Jewish origin. She was born in Dnipro in 1986, emigrated to the Ruhr area in 1996 and has lived in Berlin since 2010. Her debut novel Kukolka was published in 2017, her second novel Hunter and Gatherer was published in 2020, and her third novel Organized Conditions followed in 2024…

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