A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return with the US army in 1945 . As a filmmaker he became a chronicler of his time and with this film he engages in some bold and self-ironic navel gazing.
Bele is 16 and has big hands and feet.
Nothing's right: neither her coat, her first love, nor the first video she shoots with friends. And Agnes, her wonderful mom, isn't right either.
Agnes is the opposite of Bele: She is pretty, successful, perfect. She gets the good things that life has to offer, such as a fulfilling job and a new lover. If only it weren't for her daughter Bele, who mercilessly expresses her needs as only a 16-year-old "bad girl" can.
