Shattered Glass

A broken family. A tragic illness. The will to live...
Invited to his father′s mansion for a party, Jesko is enraged to discover that the invitation is a bold deception. He has leukemia, and his father and brother Ansgar are hoping that a bone-marrow transplant from his long-lost mother might save him.

Sullen and self-pitying, Jesko has no desire to see his mother, who
during her swift descent into schizophrenia many years ago had almost
killed him and Ansgar. Once beautiful, her illness had transformed her
into a despairing shell of a woman. Stifling his impulse to flee, Jesko
nevertheless alienates himself from his family with his sarcastic
abuse. When her bone-marrow proves unsuitable, his mother, in a moment
of clarity and spurred by an instinctive love for her son, reveals the
painful secret which could be the only alternative left for Jesko – his
father′s illegitimate child. Reluctant to believe the charge, he
confronts his father. Now Jesko is forced to recognize that his father
would rather sacrifice him than endanger his bourgeois façade. Jesko
and his mother search for evidence, but they are discovered by his
father and brother and angrily expelled from the estate. Defiantly
returning, Jesko crashes a party taking place in the mansion. Suddenly
he sees his mother entering the ballroom on the arm of a young man he
has never met...

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