Despairs

A young girl stands in front of her swimming teacher and begs to finally be put in the advanced group. Yet she can hardly swim at all without help. Her teacher is merciless, the girl descends into despair.

Thirty years later, Heike Geißler is grown up but still despairing – but she's determined to face up to this feeling. What is wrong – with gender roles, heroism, militarisation? What’s missing? What are all the different sources of inhumanity? In speech, in political action. In state parliaments, and not just in East Germany. She fights against right-wing extremism, hostile structures and intolerable circumstances. And tries a new approach, a different perspective. So as to draw consolation and courage from it all.