"She" is a big, not-so-young woman who works in a funeral parlor. "He" is the young subway driver whose voice over the loudspeaker hits her like a bolt of lightning one day as she is enduring her daily commute. Spurred by an irrational passion, she abandons her dreary responsibilities and sets out on a mission to find and seduce the man behind the voice. This is the quirky love story of a woman coming into her own, and the dumbfounded man who falls head-over-heels, and simply stops going home.

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This is the first film in what would become Percy Adlon's "trilogy" collaboration with Marianne Sägebrecht, heroine of BAGDAD CAFE and ROSALIE GOES SHOPPING.

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Premiered at the 1985 Berlin International Film Festival as the Forum’s “Surprise Film”

U.S. premiere: New York Film Festival, 1985

Ernst-Lubitsch Award for Marianne Sägebrecht