This article argues that the film Atertraffen (The Reunion) (Odell, 2013) offers an ethical event of reconfiguring the partition of the sensible as distributing boundaries between the factual and the fictive, what the author calls an event of realing. By turning the tables of expectations and context, this film, marketed as a feature fiction film, is seen to cause disruption to the spectatorial practice of parting the sensible through a contraction of foreknowledge, instead ushering the viewing subject into a missing contract, which is to say, making possible a responsible embrace of the act of viewing as an ethico-onto-epistemological practice.