In an unanimous decision the German Competition's jury is awarding a film that extends a term often considered fundamental to narrative cinema into the political dimension. Clean, glossy images reflect the spatial and emotional distance that the West has become accustomed to through decades full of wars waged far away. The film critically revisits the images and narratives that have become a cover to this rupture, whilst ambiguously examining concepts of linearity and coherence. Through ritualised enactments of a young soldier's ostensible homecoming from service in Afghanistan, the artist creates a nightmarish echo of crisis and loss, German continuities and filmic conventions that has deeply impressed the jury.