Katja (27) lives in Berlin and dreams every night of her own death, and her waking hours are a constant stream of work, digital distraction and a paranoia about the future - her inner life moving at a speed that seems unsustainable. While on vacation in northern Norway, she has an extreme encounter with raw nature and gets a new perspective on herself - she returns to Berlin with the intentions of changing her life. But the demon inside her is hard to shake off.
Haus Kummerveldt takes place in the late 19th century in the Münsterland and focuses on emancipation. Our leading role Luise von Kummerveldt wants to live free from the compulsion and conventions of her noble family and the patriarchal society and work as an author. But as a women in the Wilhelmine kingdom her freedom of action is as tight as her corset.
