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Julia Beerhold looks back into the past together with her brother. They want to understand how love and violence can coexist.

This is the story of two siblings.
Their parents loved and supported them — but also inflicted brutal violence.
The children were beaten, even on open wounds. They were slapped for falling down. Sometimes for no reason at all.
For the parents, this was not a contradiction. They claimed to love their children — and the children believed them.

The two children are the director and her brother.
The film documents the family’s story and their attempt to talk about something that is usually kept silent: the abuse of one’s own children.

A film about guilt, forgiveness — and the longing for family.