71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

In a dehumanised world, where emotional numbness is intermittently shattered by shocking episodes of extreme violence, seventy-one intricate and seemingly disconnected scenes form a puzzle in which the lives of various individuals collide in a devastating encounter at a bank. Among the protagonists are a Romanian boy living on the streets of Vienna, a couple desperate to adopt a child, and a university student on the brink. These scenarios highlight the simultaneously random and interconnected nature of modern existence, brought into harrowing focus in this despairing final chapter of Michael Haneke's trilogy.