The eighty-year-old actress Libgart Schwarz (played by herself) suddenly loses her use of language while rehearsing for a film version of the play Kaspar. The play is based on the historic figure of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who grew up locked in a room with no social contact or education. Just as its protagonist, My Sentence does not fit in: not in the usual Festival or Film categories or genres. Although originally in German, it is about the universal politics of language and age discrimination.