This Is Love

Maggie (Harfouch) kicks things off in a voice-over flashback, recalling the day her husband simply disappeared from the family home in Berlin. Sixteen years later, she has become a police detective - not hard-boiled, but more gently steeped in gin, having taken to the bottle in the wake of her husband’s departure. Her story crosses with that of Chris (Albinus), a man charged with murder and attempted suicide.
Through a series of noirish flashbacks we discover that Chris once bought Vietnamese child prostitutes and sold them on for adoption to German parents. But when a planned deal involving an endearing nine-year-old called Jenjira (Lisa Nguyen) falls through, he decides that, rather than returning her to the mafia, he will go on the run and look after her himself.