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Two questions will never be answered in Home: 1. how did this family come to live here in the first place? 2. why does the mother so desperately refuse to move away from here? Even when a motorway is being built in their front yard? In the beginning, they live comfortably in their little house, not far from the country road, which has not been used for ten years. The road basically belongs to them and is also suitable as a hockey field. But then thick lorries approach and lay a new layer of asphalt. Guard rails are installed. The hockey sticks and the paddling pool are moved aside by the workers without a word. Even the charcoal grill. Then you hear something on the radio about the inauguration of this road and shortly afterwards the first car speeds past. The family seems basically quite average - perhaps a little more unconventional than my family, for example (or so it seems). The parents cuddle, the boy plays, the twenty-year-old daughter smokes in secret. she is a typical teenager, wears black and looks sad. Every morning the father (Olivier Gourmet) drives to work in the green Volvo, while the mother (Isabelle Huppert) does the housework. The opening of the motorway was no surprise to them. But the heavy, incessant traffic is becoming a real problem. In the past, the children crossed the road to get to school faster. Today, the way to the house is full of dangers. Is there even a danger of carbon dioxide poisoning? It is now much harder for the boy to visit his friends. Only the teenage daughter continues to sunbathe in the front garden and gives the truck drivers the middle finger. And the film gets darker and darker... Director Ursula Meier skilfully leads us to explosive passages. Much of what happens would make no sense in most households. Apparently, however, there are some shallows in this family - which we sense from the beginning. At least we know that for sure, the moment disaster takes its course. The great thing about Home is, of course, Isabelle Huppert. She seems to have been looking the same for ages while slipping into fundamentally different roles. Again and again she takes on completely new characters from the inside. We can never guess what she is thinking - although we have known this actress for ages! Huppert's face is almost unfathomable and therefore all the more fascinating! Here we can put ourselves in the place of Huppert i a woman for whom a home is not just a house.