Last week Marcel Glauche wrapped shooting on his first film as producer, director and screenwriter. The lead is played by Uwe Preuss, Ralf Richter also features, and from our agency Gerda Böken and Hannes Ducke. More and more people are affected by rising rents while their wages stay the same. Gentrification, never-ending renovation works and landlords'' greed for profit are driving them out of the neighbourhoods they have always called home. And it is precisely one of these cases that our roughly 20-minute short film takes up: that of Carl Patzke, who three years ago was driven out of his flat by rent speculators and has lived ever since in his workshop, surrounded by junk and dirt. After a long spell of helplessness and powerlessness, Patzke now has a plan. It would not be the first time he has defied landlords and laws to get hold of a flat. In the 1980s he was an active member of the Kreuzberg squatter scene and was already campaigning back then for a more humane housing policy. In his old neighbourhood, the former postal district SO 36, Patzke picks out three flats. By the end of the film, one of them will be his.