Northern Malady is a memory of lost things: of a last vacation together, of the wind and the water, of dreams and silence. In October 2017, Gerrit Kuge went to Scotland with a team of three to find images for a film idea that began there a few years ago. The team found what they were looking for on a small Scottish island, far out on the Atlantic Ocean. The raw landscape of the Scottish Hebrides provided images that propelled Kuge's story of tumbling memories in the film.