During a weekend in the countryside, Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives a car accident. An intimate and mysterious new film by Christian Petzold (Roter Himmel).

Laura enjoys Betty's motherly care and the togetherness in her picturesque country house, where her husband and son are also slowly opening up. It is an almost carefree, happy time, a late summer dream to which Laura and the family are only too happy to surrender. But something is wrong, a deep, dark pain that connects them but remains unspoken. Slowly but surely, the past catches up with the four of them and Laura has to come to terms with her own life.

In Miroirs No. 3, director Christian Petzold tells an intimate and mysterious story about the fragility of life, loss, despair and love. With his recognisable poetic and warm visual language, he gives shape to complex human emotions, in which music, silence and a glance often say more than words. The fourth collaboration with his regular muse Paula Beer – after Transit, Undine and Roter Himmel – earned Petzold a premiere in the Quinzaine des réalisateurs programme in Cannes, where his unique style and strong acting impressed. Petzold modelled his film on the structure of Maurice Ravel's piano cycle Miroirs, the third part of which is called Une barque sur l'océan (A boat on the ocean).