Anna Juliana Jaenner

Inspired by a true story, TESTING LIFE is about twenty-five year old Ana Seuss. Full of life but living on social welfare and part-time work as a waitress, Ana feels that her dream of going to Hollywood and becoming an actress is slowly fading away.She then makes a drastic decision to become a human lab rat for a Berlin medical research facility. Selling her body to science and testing painkillers for cancer patients is the only option she sees to making her dreams come true. The decision soon becomes painful and unfulfilling, but in spite of her circumstances, Ana somehow manages to find her way to Hollywood.

Dominik, a man who lost it all, enters a shelter for battered men in Berlin and starts to heal and love again with the help of those around him.