🎬 UCM.ONE acquires Ina Balon’s film “Plan F” for worldwide distribution

Synopsis

“Plan F” tells the story of sisters Franka (Bärbel Schwarz) and Maya (Ursula Renneke): Franka is a punk, wild and loud, “on the decline,” while Maya has settled into a life of rubber boots, coffee with her parents, and “zero desire for change.” When Franka thinks she has seen her lost youngest sister on the street, she wants to “save” Maya at least—whether she wants it or not. What follows is a chaotic road trip from Brandenburg to Berlin, a night full of arguments, laughter, old guilt, and new honesty. In the end, there is no solution—but perhaps a beginning.

Ina Balon‘s film is a declaration of love for failure: for siblings who hate each other, love each other, annoy each other, and yet cannot escape each other. Franka lives loudly, Maya lives quietly—and between these two temperaments, the film explores themes of overwhelm and closeness, mockery and protection, love and boredom. Both have lost their way and cling to each other; he seeks the moment when defiance turns to closeness, friction to insight, and anger to something like hope. Franka and Maya are not heroines, but women with pride and a rather twisted sense of humor, characters who can no longer delude themselves. Thus, “Plan F” is not a film about reconciliation, but about the struggle not to lose sight of each other: about sisters who don’t know how to talk about pain and yet don’t want to give up on each other.