Ich hab dir nie einen Rosengarten versprochen

The escape from reality, from illness and family isolation ends for sixteen-year-old Deborah in the closed ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosis: Schizophrenia. Hannah Green narrates in her successful autobiographical novel the struggle of the girl Deborah for her healing. She provides a glimpse into the nightmare world of psychotic feelings, into fragmented relationships, but also into the solidarity among the patients. It was also a worldwide success as a film featuring Bibi Andersson as the doctor.