In early 20th century, Alma observes the unusual traditions of her family on a farm in Saxony-Anhalt in northeastern Germany. Fascinated by photographs of dead people, she is particularly puzzled by a likeness of a girl who uncannily resembles her. Several decades later, Erica develops a morbid fascination with her uncle Fritz and his amputated leg, imagining herself as an amputee. Angelika is caught between the abusive behaviour of her uncle Uwe and the affections of cousin Rainer. In the present day, Lena befriends an unusual girl whose mother has died. Though separated by time, the lives of four girls begin to mirror each other, painting a portrait of womanhood and rural life through the ages.
"I was especially interested in showing everything through the perspective, the subjectivity, of these girls, because the film is very much about combining perception, memory and imagination, and showing how fluid it all is. It was definitely not our intention to follow the traditional psychology of historical films where you have a person growing up on a farm and show the person eighty years later with a wig or something like that." (Mascha Schilinski)
Mascha Schilinski
Born in Berlin in 1984. She was a child actor in her youth. After dropping out of high school, she worked for a travelling circus before pursuing film. She graduated in screenwriting from the Filmschule Hamburg Berlin, and later also studied directing. She made her first feature film, Dark Blue Girl, in 2017. Sound of Falling is her second fiction film.