She is one of the very first to take the risk of undergoing surgery to achieve her true body. Helga F. recounts her journey from man to woman in this moving memoir, during a time when there were no words for it. Captured by bestselling author Sabine Weigand, Helga F.'s autobiography reveals an extraordinary person of great inner strength who transforms deep despair into a fulfilling life. "As I walked alone to the airplane, I thought: 'Goodbye, Nuremberg! Either I come back as a woman, or I remain on the operating table.'" Hermann is 40, a family man in the Franconian countryside, when he learns in 1970 that surgery is being offered in Casablanca that can make him a woman. As one of the very first, he takes the almost unimaginable risk at that time. Even at the age of five, in the midst of Nazi Germany and in the poorest conditions, he knows who he is.