A family saga full of secrets and betrayal. A look back at Germany’s colonial history. And the intertwined destinies of four women.
Cosima lives with her husband and daughter in Frankfurt when, one day, her previously unknown grandmother turns up at her door. Nele von Kavea informs her granddaughter that she is the rightful heir to an estate in Namibia. Cosima resists this legacy from the colonial era and the truth that is revealed to her during her investigations on the ground. For her great-grandmother Arabella, who arrived in the German colony of South West Africa in 1899, is not the only family member to have kept secrets for decades….
Confronted with her origins and the violence and guilt of a bygone era, Cosima faces up to her ancestors’ legacy and the question: what can one hold on to in the present, if not one’s own past?
