Heldin
Intense thriller starring German actress Leonie Benesch as a young nurse working in an understaffed hospital ward. As the night progresses, her work increasingly becomes a race against time.
Floria, a nurse, works with great dedication and professionalism on the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital. She never puts a foot wrong, always has an open ear for her patients even in the most stressful of situations, and is immediately at hand in an emergency – or, at least, that is the ideal version of events. But in the harsh daily reality of the often unpredictable situation on the ward, things can look a little different. When Floria arrives for the late shift on one such day, a nurse is absent from the fully occupied and already chronically understaffed ward. Despite the hectic pace, Floria manages to look after a seriously ill mother and an old man urgently awaiting a diagnosis with just as much care and expertise as she does when attending to a private patient with all his special demands. But then she makes a disastrous mistake and the shift threatens to run completely off the rails. A nerve-racking race against time begins.
With a cast consisting of both actors and real medical professionals, Volpe painfully and vividly depicts the consequences of understaffed hospital wards for nursing staff. Lead actress Leonie Benesch did an internship at a Swiss hospital to learn the basic skills of nursing. (source: www.berlinale.de, adapted)