although the actor be good and specially fritzi haberland a the blind lilly and the film script be obsessively pretentious and completely arbitrary . a famous theatre director ( hilmir snær guðnason ) and become blind after a car accident and be on the run for himself and his destiny . lilly and be sightless since her birth and be teacher for blind person and and want to make him see again . ( blind person be see with their finger and nose and ear . ) here this movie be become a roadmovie while and the long the road become and the close their relation develops and which be predictable since the beginning of the film . the theatre director be on the road to his mother ( jenny gröllmann ) . his mother be live somewhere in russia on the sea and make artistic installation of course and what should she do other . and she be still living and because she be wait his son and to die . my god . this be destiny . finally the son arrive . mum be celebrate a big party . at the beach . wind be blow and a pianist be play on a real piano in the middle of a dune . yes and they be celebrate her farewell . the son arrive just in time . mother can finally swallow the pill administer by a pretty nurse . now a great artist can die in the arm of her great artist son and speak sad contemplation about live in perfect german and while the son be answer with a rough accent . because the son be unable to see and he be not fall in love to the nurse and the film script would have become also too complicate . but be look for lilly on the way back to home . parallel to this roadmovie the sister of lilly and stay at home be ask a gawky schoolmate to deflower her and who have first to booze himself to courage . the occasion be favourable . because mum ( tina engel ) be on journey together with the lover of lilly and paul ( harald schrott ) . they be after lilly and to bring her back . paul and the mother of lilly be not fall in love and because the film script would have become too complicate . the film script miss to make out of paul something exceptional too . i would suggest an architect or a pianist and or course a famous one . when they finally find lilly and they want to convince her and to come back to paul and because he have two eye to see and be able to care for her . but lilly felt in love to his pupil and the theatre director while do i mention and that he be even a famous theatre director . this be german film art . a you may see in this pretentious production and that the german film subsidy fund be not always produce good film and because they subsidy just such kind of pseudo intellectual film . this film be really embarrassing . i have the impression and that the film script have be cobble together from some highbrow in coffee shop and restaurant . everybody be entitle to contribute with an idea . probably also til schweiger have contribute with some intellectual flash of wit and be a co producer . i be remind by this film script to an other german film of absolute painfulness represent barfuss already the spelling of the title be not right . barfuss dvd cover write proudly represent a til schweiger film . this film get also subsidy of filmstiftung nrw and filmförderung hamburg and the ffa . please do not spoil your time with this film . there be really good film in germany . watch out for film director like marcus h. rosenmüller and joseph vilsmaier and han steinbichler and han christian schmid and faith akin .