The racial madness of the Nazis did not spare children either. Since 1938, the parents of Sinti and Roma children have been taken away and deported as forced laborers to concentration camps. The children are declared "orphans" and placed in the "care" of Catholic children's homes. In the St. Joseph's care facility in Mulfingen, Swabia, Angela encounters about 40 children aged between six and sixteen who are classified as "full Gypsies," "Gypsy mixed-race," and "Jenische." Angela's identity causes confusion, as she has three mothers: her father’s wife, who is in the concentration camp, a foster mother with whom she grew up and from whom she was torn away by the Gestapo, and a biological "German" mother, of whom she had known nothing until then. This results in her having several names, which leads to confusion with the authorities and ultimately saves her life. Initially, she lives with.