Screening at Cinema Bad Saarow

Empire, Nevada. The local gypsum mine has closed and the settlement has become a ghost town. 60-year-old Fern recently lost her husband, and now her job and house too. The authorities want to send her into early retirement, but Fern wants to work. So she sells almost all her possessions, buys a small van and converts it into a caravan, which becomes her home from now on. Without a concrete goal, Fern begins a nomadic life, outside of what many in the rest of society

would describe as „normal“. She travels through the western part of the USA and takes on various jobs, meeting other nomads who, like migratory birds, chase after odd jobs and seasonal work and have also started their mobile lives out of curiosity, loss, grief or longing. The big OSCAR winner 2021!