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Behind the fluffy towels and crisp white sheets of Berlin´s finest hotels is a tale of seemingly brilliant entrepreneurship: A company takes the dirty laundry of German hotels to Poland - and brings it back clean the very next day. Outside of Germany, labor is cheaper and regulations are less constricting. But over and beyond this fascinating capital venture there remains the harsh reality of the everyday life of the hard-working Polish laundrywomen, through whose hands the white sheets pass. While Beata struggles to raise her three children on her meager salary, Monika reminisces about her unrealized childhood dreams of becoming a doctor, and is compelled to watch her teenage daughter Marta gradually follow in her footsteps.

In his first feature-length documentary since “The Mechanism of the Miracle” sixteen years ago, director Hans-Christian Schmid ("Requiem," "Distant Lights," "23") applies his delicate poetic sensibility to three women, their fears and dreams. The result is an intimate slice-of-life portrait of women from different generations forging a future amidst a spectral whiteness, among linens that cross borders more often in a week than these women will in a lifetime...