American Psychopath
Eight yearsof Caroline'schildhood are gone. She simply can't remember. Everything isburied under trauma, induced by yearsof abuse. When she learnsthat her father isdying, suddenly everything breaksope…
American Psychopath
Eight yearsof Caroline'schildhood are gone. She simply can't remember. Everything isburied under trauma, induced by yearsof abuse. When she learnsthat her father isdying, suddenly everything breaksopen. And her fight for survival begins. The last evening before her gender reassignment surgery: Caroline thinks she is finally on the side of happiness. As the hospital settles down for the night, she says goodbye to her old self and feels happy for the first time in her life. Weeks later, her father is dying. Caroline looks paralyzed from a balcony parapet of her high-rise in Leipzig and talks about the first abuse on Christmas Eve in her childhood. Very soon she realizes that without coming to terms with her trauma, she has no chance of building a future and arriving in the new gender. With the help of a therapist, Caroline goes back into her past - with an uncertain outcome.
American Psychopath
Thriller
Film Details
Eight yearsof Caroline'schildhood are gone. She simply can't remember. Everything isburied under trauma, induced by yearsof abuse.
When she learnsthat her father isdying, suddenly everything breaksopen. And her fight for survival begins. The last evening before her gender reassignment surgery: Caroline thinks she is finally on the side of happiness.
As the hospital settles down for the night, she says goodbye to her old self and feels happy for the first time in her life. Weeks later, her father is dying. Caroline looks paralyzed from a balcony parapet of her high-rise in Leipzig and talks about the first abuse on Christmas Eve in her childhood.
Very soon she realizes that without coming to terms with her trauma, she has no chance of building a future and arriving in the new gender. With the help of a therapist, Caroline goes back into her past - with an uncertain outcome..