In the mother tongue Mameloschn, three generations meet with skepticism: Young Rahel is searching for her sexual identity in New York; her grandmother survived the concentration camp and was a devoted communist in East Germany; Rahel's mother Clara feels as disconnected from Judaism as she does from the failed communist experiment that shaped her mother's life. In Swimming Lessons, young Feli is at the center. When she falls in love with Lil, she leaves her husband to go with her lover to her homeland. But then, in a foreign land, everything turns out to be much more complicated than she thought. The new love cannot withstand the circumstances. Should she return to her husband? How do you deal with each other without hurting the other and without sinking yourself? A longing for adventure and freedom clashes with the desire for reliability and intimacy.