Welket Bungué

An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in this audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Doblin’s 1929 novel. After surviving his perilous journey, Francis vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while undocumented in Germany—without papers, without a nationality, and without a work permit.

A young man juggling long shifts at a textile factory with wild, no-strings sexual encounters learns to take pleasure in the small things in life.

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations.