ENDE DES KREISES

Marla – as an archaeologist, she is trying, with limited success, to prove the matriarchal origins of humanity. As a single mother, she is trying to manage the present. With limited success. Suddenly, Erika appears in the closet, singing the praises of the German housewife. Erika, Marla’s deceased grandmother. Not the only ghost haunting the mother of two teenage daughters. Children are like ghosts: they drive Marla almost to madness. Then she also receives the termination notices for her day job and her Berlin backyard apartment. How do you avoid passing down the traumas of the past to the next generation? How is that possible? Not well, at first. Her daughters, Luna and Jade, struggle with their own issues and their mother’s battle with her ancestors, who have long forgotten how to fight for themselves. Full of unfulfilled longings. A time travel. Humorous, touching. Until the end of the circle.

Mareike Sophie Danisch photos © Martin Danisch