and follows her into an IKEA store, where he sees her lying, like a corpse, on one of the beds. They later become re-acquainted and he tells her he's a diving instructor and soon heading to New Zealand (a reference to the subway advertisement). Back at her flat, he asks his mother why she gave him up and she tells him that it was the best thing she did in her life. She finds out his real occupation as an undertaker and confronts him after the end of his shift, outside the mortuary. She also confesses to him that the real reason that she gave Roman up was that, when he was a baby, she tried to suffocate him by placing a pillow over his face, to stop his crying. The film ends with Roman leaving his parole hearing and visiting the grave of his teenage victim. Cast Thomas Schubert as Roman Kogler Karin Lischka as Margit Kogler, Roman's mother Gerhard Liebmann as Walter Fakler, Roman's probation officer Georg Friedrich as Rudolf Kienast, his co-worker at the mortuary Georg Veitl as Jürgen Hefor, a co-worker at the mortuary Stefan Matousch as Gerhard Schorn, Roman's supervisor at the mortuary Klaus Rott as Leopold Wesnik, a senior supervisor at the mortuary Martin Oberhauser as the prison guard who conducts a strip search each time Kolger returns to prison Reinhold G. Moritz as Josef Kallinger, the paternalistic monitor of the prisoners on the hallway where Roman's cell is located Luna Mijović as Mona, a young American tourist Roman encounters on the evening train back to prison Elena Dörfler as Walter Fakler's daughter, Roberta See also List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film References External links 2011 films 2011 drama films 2010s German-language films Austrian drama films