A new European comedy tells a sweet, bizarre, yet historically-rooted story of a heist in the last days of East Germany.

In the summer of 1990, unemployed single mother Maren is bracing for the arrival of western capitalism, when her partner’s uncle tells her about masses of soon-to-be-obsolete communist money stored at the bunker where he works. With the help of the local community, she scrambles to take and spend as much of it as possible before reunification – but greed, the authorities, and conflicting values soon complicate matters.

Working from a surprising amount of historical fact, writer-director Natja Brunckhorst tells a farcical caper, but roots it in the real people and places behind late East Germany, making for a hilarious yet affecting story of unlikely second chances. Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann) leads a fantastic ensemble cast.