Overview

She wanted so much to be happy. And at first it looked good for her when she met Carlos as a pretty orphan with blue eyes and a sunny smile. But after the end of the great love, Malou was left alone with two children. In a country she did not know. She died lonely at 61 in a damp house of kidney failure. Jeanine Meerapfel tries to piece together her own buried memories of the stages of her mother's life in Germany, France and Argentina. The documentary essay is a personal look into the past and family history. Wonderful how the memory of the mother intertwines with contemporary history and thus opens up a larger dimension.