Hessingen – Shadow of Perspective
- Tobias Merten
- Aug 13
- 1 min read
Progress? Only if it knows its place.
Welcome to a town like any other – yet unlike any other.
A parable about a country that permits progress – as long as it fits in. Where innovation is welcomed, but first must be carefully managed.
In Hessingen, a fictional small town, Perspective Blindness is a system – carefully cultivated in the shadow of tradition and bureaucracy.
Mayor Lukas “Bürgerblitz” Kerner wants to bring fresh air into the town hall. But local interest groups fight hard to keep things exactly as they are.
When entrepreneur Klara Sturm is transformed by a mysterious event into a seer who steps out of the shadow of perspective, the fragile balance begins to falter.
A stone starts rolling …
The story unfolds in ongoing episodes.
Kafkaesque. Documentary. Darkly comic.
