I hate the word 'Gypsy.' People change as soon as they think I'm one. Ede and Unku - with over 5 million copies, it's one of the best-selling books in Germany. The first edition was published in 1931, and the book was required reading for many years, telling the unusual friendship between the working-class boy Ede and the Sinti girl Unku during the Weimar Republic. But what few people know is that shortly after Hitler came to power, the book was banned, and the "Gypsy girl" Unku was killed in a concentration camp. Musician Janko Lauenberger is Unku's distant cousin. In this book, he tells their true story and his own as a Sinti child in the former GDR and later in reunified Germany. A piece of contemporary history - personal and emotional. A part of German-German post-war history. ZDF is planning a documentary.