BOI is a young man just starting out as a private chauffeur. Whilst anxiously awaiting his girlfriend’s decision about a certain life-changing matter, he has to accompany his first ever clients: Michael and Gordon. Two Chinese businessmen who have come to Barcelona with the aim of closing, in under 48 hours, a multi-million dollar contract with an American magnate. They’(❎)ll help each other, as they set out together on a journey to the edge, in a world in which dreams wander like an ownerless dog, pistols and prostitutes don’(🗯)t do what they’re meant to do, and the questions have yet to find answers. But as long as there’s a reasonable amount of blood, then there’(🙅)s nothing to worry about.
Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for the holiday on her own. She travels to Hungary, trailed by Adam. As the border with Austria falls, everything changes in Hungary. The frontiers are open, as the new possibilities for Adam and Evelyn to decide in which world – Eastern or Western – they want to build a happy life. Adam und Evelyn is based on the homonymous novel by Ingo Schulze, translated in more than ten languages.
