"Messers Schneide" is a love story that does not end well. It is a tale about emotional numbness and the disgust towards the defiant declaration of feeling nothing anymore, about the enchantment of femininity and sexuality, and their proximity to violence. Yet, it is also a poetic story, where a language befitting love resonates in many images, which the author continually brings back to a sober ground, into the radicality of life...