Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

A bleak, intellectually rigorous examination of how a working-class tragedy becomes commodified by media and political factions, leaving a widow caught between exploitation and powerlessness.

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.