Floria, a nurse, works with great dedication on the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital. She never puts a foot wrong, always has an open ear for her patients even in the most stressful of situations, and is immediately at hand in an emergency. But everyone has their own limits. When Floria arrives for the late shift one day, a nurse is absent from the fully occupied and already chronically understaffed ward. Despite the hectic pace, Floria manages to attend to a seriously ill mother and an old man urgently awaiting a diagnosis. But then she makes a disastrous mistake, setting in motion a nerve-racking race against time.
“We wanted to create a physical experience for the audience. We wanted to get their heartbeat up and make people feel out of breath from just watching the film. To feel as if they had worked the shift themselves. / ... / The drama every nurse experiences on understaffed wards is that she literally can't split herself in three or four, and it’s not only her who pays the price but the patients. We really wanted to honour and show the drama of that, and the camera helps, which becomes more fragmented over time because she can't split herself.” (Petra Volpe)
Petra Volpe
Born in 1970 in Switzerland. She studied at the Film Academy Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany. Her feature, The Divine Order, was chosen as Switzerland's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 90th Academy Awards, and became a national box office hit. Living between Berlin and New York, Volpe has asserted herself as one of the most prominent Swiss-Italian screenwriters and directors.