Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) is showing her mother around her garden in the sunshine. Three years earlier, it was just a field, but now it has neat lawns, paved paths, a pool, a greenhouse, and thriving flower beds. "It's a paradise garden," marvels her proud mother. But, of course, the family wouldn't have their enviable home if it weren't for the hard work of Hedwig's husband Rudolf (Christian Friedel). "He's under pressure like you wouldn't believe," she says. The women's quiet, middle-class chit-chat could hardly be more ordinary, but it's rendered dizzyingly surreal and deeply horrific by certain details that they...