Plot

It is the year 2027. A toxic fog often appears due to extreme pollution in the city. Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion are still fighting climate change. Progress has been made, there are only electric cars, but they are basically small diversions to avoid having to make fundamental changes. Activists are increasingly frustrated that everything is staying the same. Leocadia Haze is a lawyer who represents environmental activists in court. She stands behind the activists‘ demands for a basic right to an unspoiled environment in the future. That night, Leo (Leocadia) is out in her car, looking for her little sister Nikita, who has allegedly gone into hiding. Nikita has joined a radical environmental organisation that also threatens violence to achieve its goals. She disappeared after slapping a well-known TV presenter in the face with the phrase ›Shame on you‹ in public. It remains unclear whether Nikita is responsible for the fire at a corporate headquarters that also caused human casualties. Has Nikita become a murderer? Leo meets during the day in the government quarter with the activists, whom she serves as a lawyer, to discuss strategies. The activists are concerned with the year 2030, by which time something must have changed fundamentally, otherwise there will no longer be a ›point of return‹. Through Leo’s work as a lawyer, she is committed to the law without the use of violence, but she sees the dilemma that the 68 movement already went through with the radicalisation of the RAF. To what extent is it legitimate to use violence to force a necessary change and prevent the final climate change. While driving through the city at night, Leo has flashbacks and visions, she suffers from insomnia and a mysterious nosebleed illness caused by the city smog. She has a dark secret. To calm herself down, she goes swimming at night in the city lake. (Text by Nina E. Schönefeld)