Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein

How is one supposed to be “marvellous” in a country where corruption and oppression reign, where only those who submit to a restrictive regime survive? How are you supposed to overcome this experience if you don’t talk about it, not even after having emigrated, not even with your own daughter? “What do they see when they look through the curtains into the courtyard of an East German city with their Soviet eyes?” Nina asks herself when she thinks of her mother Tatjana and her friend Lena, who left Ukraine in the mid-1990s, stranded in Jena and started their life all over again.