Tick tock

Before she lays herself on the subway tracks, Mette, 15, announces her intentions in TikTok videos. No one reacts – yet she is saved. The suicide attempt confuses her privileged surroundings: Until now, she has delivered the performance of a gifted child professionally – Mette's strategy to stay under the radar of a world whose hypocrisy frustrates her. Then she meets Jo, ten years older, brilliant and full of anger, a ally. As an anti-influencer, he has built a following and recruits Mette for the fight against the mainstream. A game begins, the rules of which she does not understand. With dazzling clarity and cutting wit, Julia von Lucadou presents a snapshot of our present, where digital and analog realities completely intertwine.