Set in a provincial Southern German town in the 1970s, Schmid’s latest film focuses on Michaela, a young epileptic woman who struggles to break free from her deeply religious family. She get her first taste of freedom when she leaves home to study at the university where she develops a budding love for fellow co-ed, Stefan and a close friendship with Hanna. Her freedom is shortlived when she eventually begins to hear demonic voices. She is sent back to the care of her family and her church where she seeks help from a priest who reinforces her conviction that she is possessed. Schmid’s powerful new film is based on the same material which was adapted in the Hollywood thriller The Exorcism of Emily Rose.