Komma

Peter de Wit, a man in his fifties, awakens in the middle of the night and realizes with dismay that he is lying in the cold chamber of a morgue. How did he get there? He doesn´t remember, doesn´t want to remember … Assuming the identity of a corpse whose wallet he steals, Peter decides to give himself a new start in life, to invent a new biography for himself.

He becomes Lars Erickson, an enigmatic Swedish businessman passing through Brussels. Slipping into the identity of the traveler, Peter wanders the city as the middle-aged Swede, improvising as the situation requires, now discreetly, now with bravado … One evening, he comes across Lucie, a neurotic young artist who seems to have lost her memory. Almost without thinking, as a kind of natural reaction, he gives himself a lead role in her life, his fantasizing providing the perfect foil for her amnesia… —Bavaria International Film Festival