As a woman of my generation, I was something new, unusual, and suspect. I was, so to speak, out of the ordinary. Else Kirschner spends a carefree childhood and youth in Berlin: holidays by the sea, theater, concerts, dance evenings, first love, early marriage, jealousy, and new passions. But then: persecution by the Nazi regime, flight, and exile in distant Sofia. Angelika Schrobsdorff tells the story of her mother's two lives vividly, without pathos, and with subtle humor.