Eva Ebner is a distinctive Berliner with deep knowledge of the film industry, working as both an assistant director and an actress. She’s best known for her work on legendary German adaptations of Edgar Wallace crime novels from the 1960s and has mentored many young filmmakers. However, this eighty-year-old carries significant emotional baggage from her childhood in Gdansk, marked by an anti-Semitic stepmother and the threat of Nazi rule. This film portrait unflinchingly explores the darkness of that period and the complexities of the relationship between the filmmaker and his subject.