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SOFTNESS OF BODIES follows Charlotte "Charlie" Parks (Dasha Nekrasova), an American poet living in Berlin struggling to find recognition for her work. As Charlotte ambles about the city and interacts with her supportive roommate, Remo (Johannes Frick), she finally discovers an anchor in her life – becoming a finalist for a prestigious poetry grant. While seizing the opportunity to legitimize her career, the tendencies that complicate Charlie’s life resurface. Racing to finish a prize-winning poem and prevail over her rival, Sylvie (Nadine Dubois), Charlie gets caught in love triangle involving Franz (Moritz Vierboom) and Oliver (Morgan Krantz). As if her world wasn’t complicated enough, Charlie’s dangerous case of kleptomania catches up with her – leading to an arrest for shoplifting, constant financial woes and a mysterious pair of missing designer shoes. Struggling to find money and the words for her poetry submission, Charlie scrambles to maintain a life she barely wants – one with a laundry list of self-made troubles that keep her from artistic success.