Atterwellen

At twenty-five, Erna, the daughter of a farmer from Lower Austria, moves to Seewalchen am Attersee to be with Leopold. She quickly realizes how small the world is that is laid out for her as a wife and mother. Erna has five children. They build a house and open a guesthouse. The dream of a fulfilling married life has long since faded into memory. After twenty-seven years of marriage, divorce becomes the only solution. But Erna has not forgotten how to dream. Her diary entries from sixty-five years serve as the foundation for episodic explorations through a life—and a shared life. They also stand as a contemporary historical document of the societal and political changes of that time.