Based on the novel by Judith Schalansky
For over thirty years, Inge Lohmark has been teaching biology at a high school in a small town in eastern Germany, somewhere in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She believes in evolution and adaptation; she doesn’t show her emotions. Her school—the Charles Darwin High School—is, however, on the verge of closing due to a lack of students. And as an advocate of restrictive educational methods, she, too, seems to be one of the last of her kind; she has no illusions about that. Her daughter has long since drifted away from her, and her husband has lost his job. And then there are those unsettling thoughts and daydreams that begin to shake her rigid worldview. A psychological portrait—as darkly comic as it is touching—of a woman who has fallen out of step with the times.
