STYX

by Wolfgang Fischer (Germany, 2018, 1h34)

starring Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld

Rike, 40, is a woman doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfil her dream of sailing single-handedly from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday seems to be coming to pass but then, after a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly turns into an unprecedented challenge when she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly overloaded refugee boat nearby.