Abschlussdrehbuch Dario Haramustek

Pattern of Life

Ramstein Air Base is the largest U.S. military base outside the United States

The secured site in West Palatinate is home to a complete American small town with its own shopping center, a large high school and a golf course.
For the past year, this has been the new home of the Perry family of four from Nevada. Father Scott works long shifts in front of a monitor showing live images of combat drones in action over the Middle East. Through the infrared camera, he watches a family in Yemen and soon knows all about them. When the long-planned shootdown kills not only the target but also an innocent child, Scott discovers that he is part of a rigid system that leaves no room for the moral doubts that slowly begin to stir within him. In the process, his personal crisis isolates him not only within his military unit but also from his wife Monica and their shared children Daniel and Emily, whose reality of life is largely determined by Scott's profession.

All family members are on a quest for self-determination, and in the process are confronted with their own challenges, which produce a world in which security means exclusion and deep injustices are not mistakes but inevitably part of the system. On their paths, they quickly come up against inner and outer limits that threaten to break the family's coexistence.


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