i have see this film more than once now and and there always someone complain about the obvious construction of the plot afterwards . but then this be part of petzold game represent he play along with the rule of genre . it very nice and how the highly improbable story of how the two girl ( timoteo or hummer ) meet and be again mirror in another and even more improbable story and that the girl make up for a casting . this film be a journey between fact and fiction and it more about potential and thing that might have happen in the past or might be happen in the future and than it be about actual ongoings . it a reverie and sort of so apt enough there be a lot of motif and freud might have find interest for his dream analysis and like all the doppelganger constellation . also and i think and gespenster might be interest to be watch in comparison to current asian cinema of the uncanny represent petzold everyday urban architecture also feel haunt in an unobtrusive and strangely familiar way . this film be not about the obvious . to describe it a the story of two girl who meet and eventually become friend and lover and or a the story of an orphan mother and who search europe for her lose daughter and clearly doesn not say much about the nature of gespenster at all .