Over the Worst

Over the Worst

Is it that he can't remember – or that he just doesn't want to? In "Over the Worst", Aglaia Szyszkowitz and Friedrich von Thun try to help an injured man to recover his memory.

In this episode, Florian Karlheim plays a boarder with selective amnesia, who wants to forget his previous life. Director Sebastian Stern combines the tongue-in-cheek comic storyline with an affectionate wink at Bavarian life. Award-winning camera man, Ngo The Chau, is responsible for the idyllic footage of the Upper Bavarian landscape in this the eighth episode of the series.

When died-in-the-wool Bavarian, Barthl (Friedrich von Thun) is feeling his oats, logic goes out the window. While zipping along the main road on his moped, he takes it into his head to race an unsuspecting rider on horseback (Florian Karlheim). When the horse takes fright, however, the rider is thrown to the ground, takes a heavy knock to the head and loses consciousness. No sooner has Sophie (Aglaia Szyszkowitz) picked up the unlucky man than her instinct to help kicks in: though physically unscathed, the stranger cannot even remember his own name, so the guesthouse owner takes him in temporarily at the Fuchsbichler farm. Barthl, who has his own issues with memory loss, soon starts to have doubts about the stranger's "hard drive crash", but Sophie is enjoying her charming patient/guest. At the same time, Sophie's daughter also needs her help: Leonie (Carolin Garnier) is suffering from separation-induced heartache! But her mother seems to have no time for her at all, because, as mayor, Sophie is also busy trying to find a new village doctor for Wiesenried.