“I do not want a blueberry pie, I just want to get it out. – a mother’s love in letters ” with Gabriel Heim

The whole family is already in exile. Marie stays and starts writing to her daughter Ilse: two long letters every week. From 1938 to 1942, the Jewess Marie Winter in Berlin writes over 170 letters to her daughter Ilse in Basel. She tells hauntingly about her everyday life, describes the desperation to get a visa for “Somewhere” and lives from the hope of being rescued by her daughter. It is difficult for people to choose their own path to exile. When the daughter decides to save her mother from the Nazis, it is too late.

“The drama is that something primitive comes together with a political tragedy,” summarizes the son Gabriel Heim. In the estate of his mother, he found the letters of the grandmother of Berlin and used them to make the life drama of Marie and Ilse a touching document of contemporary history.