Die Sterne oder der Tod (WT)

Gießen, Germany 1986: Reiner Laux leads a non-conformist life beyond the norm. To help his large flat-sharing community out of financial difficulties, he spontaneously decides to rob a bank in Frankfurt. The young man carries out the bank robbery all by himself; calmly, confidently, without violence. On that day, his life changes radically, because this bank will not be his last. In a society in which the citizen is almost powerless in the face of the intransparent machinations of the banking sector, Laux discovers his very own vision of freedom…