A car is stolen with a baby inside: the new movie by the successful Swiss duo Martin Suter and Christoph Schaub.

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The second collaboration between best-selling author Martin Suter and director Christoph Schaub (Giulias Verschwinden): this time a baby disappears along with the VW Golf it's in. Parents Livia and Marco are fighting, mostly about their own constantly screaming baby. With their nerves on edge, the baby can only be calmed by a ride in the family car. Except that the car and the baby are both stolen at a highway service area. And so begins a night's adventure through Switzerland, as the parents frantically try to find their child and the couple that stole the car are shocked by the additional swag. An acid test for everyone involved.

Although the director and the actors' performances are professional, the story is transparent and thin. That it's spoken in High German can be debated, but the fact that Swiss locations have been Germanized is annoying. On the whole, Nachtlärm is unsatisfactory. What starts as a very realistic drama about a marriage drifts off into a transparent thriller and a lame story of two couples' relationships. The initially funny odyssey ends as a banal road movie and family therapy session.