The Space Between the Lines

The Space Between the Lines (Gut gegen Nordwind, 2019) is a German romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM. Emmi Rothner types the wrong email address while trying to cancel a magazine subscription. The message lands in Leo Leike's inbox by accident. He could delete it. He writes back instead.

The correspondence runs for months — from polite correction to the kind of honesty that strangers sometimes manage precisely because they have never met face to face. Nora Tschirner and Alexander Fehling play the pair; director Vanessa Jopp adapts Daniel Glattauer's bestselling novel at a patient 122 minutes.

Whether feelings built entirely on words survive a real encounter is the question the story keeps deferring until it can't anymore. Stream The Space Between the Lines online on iFILM.