Humans need stories to find stability. What is it like to have no memories of your own father? And none of the country called East Germany, where you were born? After graduating from high school, Johanna moved from Uckermark to Berlin, where she is training to become a tram driver. With Reiner, her instructor, she laughs at old East German jokes without understanding them. She begins an affair with Karl, a world traveler without parents. Her father Jens left the family just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when Johanna was two. But then Jens calls, and Johanna's life begins to unravel. Suddenly, there are numerous contradictory versions of his disappearance. Did he flee? Was he arrested? Did Johanna's mother have something to do with it, or even Honecker's physiotherapist? Paula Fürstenberg tells a touching story with tenderness, deadpan humor, and subtle wit.