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February 1989. That night, Marie and Marc are trying to escape across the border to West Germany – the attempt fails before it begins, because they start arguing. Marie runs blindly into the woods. Marc follows through with the escape plan and gets shot dead.

Eight years later. Immediately after the wall came down, Marie has left home without a word, and without ever coming back. She has been wandering around aimlessly, trying various jobs, and now she lives in an abandoned train station. Her parents never left their home. Papa has become a stranger to the new world, he prefers searching for traces of the old one in his rock collection. Ingrid, her mother, is ready for action, but does not know where to begin. She rummages through landfills, surfs the World Wide Web, and eventually she follows her daughter.

“Through this family, Habermehl describes the private hopes and rebellion, the resignation and failure; all the social upheaval is reflected here - a beautiful, small drama with an eye on the big picture. It is written in a sometimes serious, sometimes funny language, which is always a pleasure to listen to.” (Nachtkritik) “In Narbengelände, Anne Habermehl has delivered a play where the characters, with all their dispositions and biographies, are at its center, an almost anachronistic hommage to the psychological theatre … the worldliness, as it is so often demanded from young dramatists, lies inconspicuously beneath a text which radiates its sweltering ambiguity.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)