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English: Sarah, Gerda and Leonie only know each other from a chat room. What connects them is invisible – a shared decision that brings them together for the first time on a wintry village street. Without many words, the three young women set off into the dark forest. The snow muffles their footsteps, the trees closing in as if to hide their path. In a secluded hollow, they pitch a tent, huddle close, and share one last cigarette. Each carries a disposable barbecue in her backpack – ordinary objects that take on a fatal meaning in this night. The forest becomes a bubble outside the world, where time and sound seem to slow down. As they arrange their camp, brief, tentative conversations emerge – fragments from their lives, hints of what has led them here. There are quiet laughs over small things, fleeting moments of warmth in the cold. Yet beneath it all lies the knowledge of why they have come. As the fire is prepared, glances and silences condense into an unspoken question: will they take the final step? The night stretches on, the darkness thickens, and between smoke, clouds of breath and falling snow, reality and decision begin to blur. In this in-between moment, just before something irreversible, there is a fragile connection between these three strangers – who, for a few hours, are more to each other than just names on a screen.