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How does a child become a compassionate social being if it does not know vulnerability? If it does not understand how much something can hurt? In vivid imagery, Valerie Fritsch tells the story of a trauma that resonates through generations. Alma and Friedrich have a child who cannot feel pain. Constantly worried about their son, Alma incessantly monitors his physical well-being. Alma finds solace in her elderly grandmother, who begins to speak after a lifetime of silence: about war, flight, hunger, and deprivation. With the child on her lap, who knows no pain, Alma sits by the old woman's bed, who wishes for nothing more than to overcome her own suffering. And in her grandmother's stories, she finds an explanation for the feelings of guilt, powerlessness, and lostness that have accompanied her throughout her life.