Noah Thomas

'Limbus' is a film about abandonment and growing up too soon and too fast: With his alcoholic mother unable to function and his father absent, nine year old Marc desperately tries to take care of his little brother as well as his mom in order to keep the family from completely unraveling.

Sophie is admitted to hospital with a fainting spell. She has recently started feeling sick all the time and has a headache. She fears she might be pregnant again. And now she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her husband Joachim is never around and their three sons consume all her energy. She throws herself into an affair with the doctor Paul Wolff in order to feel alive again.