Michael Glawogger's searing feature tells not one but two stories of converging lives. Rupert "Ratz" Kramer is a 35-year-old shaggy-haired, hash-smoking bohemian, who is fighting his own quiet inner battles. Tortured by feelings of guilt towards his mother and full of hate for his father, a cabinet minister who left the family for a younger woman, Ratz spends his time in front of his computer developing a bizarre computer game in which players vent their patricidal impulses in cyberspace. Travelling along an opposite path is Jonas Shtrom, who also is racked by guilt. As a boy, Jonas witnessed his father's murder and has since devoted his life to find the Nazi war criminal responsible. Ratz's and Jonas's lives converge when Ratz receives an unexpected call from a long-lost lover, Mimi, which takes him to New York, where his video game is destined to become an underground hit. This is a powerful, sobering story that explores still-unaddressed issues of individual choices made during the Holocaust era, raised in such films as The Reader and The Lives of Others. Director Michael Glawogger delights in offering German and Austrian audiences some strong medicine about today.