The return to home turf is prototypical of a number of recent crime dramas that confront their protagonists with their old homeland and their past alongside a crime. This is also the case in the slightly surrealistic French crime drama "Le Monde N'existe Pas" ("The World Does Not Exist"), which is based on a bestseller by Fabrice Humbert and can rely on an outstanding Niels Schneider in the leading role. He plays a journalist who returns to the town of his childhood to investigate the disappearance of an old childhood friend. He is accused of killing a young girl, but enjoys the full trust of our reporter. His search for the truth confronts us not only with complex characters, but also with dark psychological abysses.