A Piece of Sky

How do you deal with a loved one suddenly no longer being the same, even developing pathological traits? Marco (Simon Wisler), the newcomer who turns up one day in a Swiss mountain village, seems like a man who can't be knocked over so easily. Even if he seems a little melancholy and prefers iced tea to beer at the regulars' table. Muscle-bound and as stoic as a bull, Marco gets to work on the mountain pasture and with old mountain farmer Alois' herd of cows. Down in the village pub works Anna (Michèle Brand), mother of a young daughter, who falls in love with the taciturn man. Anna and Marco's love is very gentle, beautiful and natural. They marry and can hardly believe their happiness. Then Marco's increasing outbursts repeatedly interfere with their happiness. A brain tumor is diagnosed. Marco doesn't want to die. Nobody wants to let him down. “What is Love?”, Haddaway's repeatedly repeated Eurotrash song, becomes the film's question as to whether love survives illness and decay, while fate takes on the traits of a Greek tragedy... “Sometimes, rarely, there is such a thing: a movie that creates its own cinematic genre on the screen, lonely and incomparable. (...) “Three Winters” is a monolith.” (Katja Nicodemus, in: Die Zeit)