From stand up

A century of life – transformed into literature. Helga Schubert's mother explains to her daughter that she has accomplished three heroic deeds in her life: she did not abort her, took her with her on the run during World War II, and did not shoot her before the Russians invaded. Helga Schubert narrates a century of German history in short episodes and clear, touching language – her story, which is both fiction and truth. For more than ten years, she is under the watch of the Stasi, and by the time of her first free election, she is almost fifty years old. However, it is only after her mother's death that she can find reconciliation: with her mother, a life full of resistance, and with herself.