
Plot
In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin color is merely a coincidence. As a teenager, she accidentally discovers the truth. Years before, a group of African men came to study in a village nearby. Sigrid, an East German woman, fell in love with Lucien from Togo and became pregnant. But she was already married to Armin. The child is Togolese-East German filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. In interviews with Armin and others from her childhood years, she tracks the astonishing strategies of denial her parents, striving for normality, developed following her birth. What sounds like fieldwork about social dislocation becomes an autobiographical essay film and a reflection on themes such as identity, social norms and family ties, viewed from a very personal perspective.
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Cast

Ines Johnson-Spain
Self

Armin Gundermann
Self

Madeleine Papangou Johnson
Self

Germaine Papangou Johnson
Self

Geneviève Papangou Johnson
Self

Irène Papangou Johnson
Self

Christel Anders
Self

Werner Anders
Self

Rosi Judisch
Self

Christophe Kuessi Johnson
Self

Michael Gundermann
Self

Raymond Johnson
Self

Perpétue Johnson
Self

Asiaba Johnson
Self

Gisela Mwaungulu
Self

Ernst Hoffmann
Self

Robert Kuessi Johnson
Self

Ruben Kweku Dabam Johnson
Self

Gisele Hountondji
Self

Gabriel Ampah Johnson
Self

Jacqueline Agbokou
Self

Felicia Johnson
Self

Philipe Dütsch
Self

Julius Hensel
Self

Benino Eßling
Self

Cécile Dütsch
Self

Louisa Schirner
Self

Mario Hensel
Self