Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the first part of the documentary Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, after 46 years of silence they talk for the first time publicly about their violent experiences that have left such a mark.

television film

How can a woman love a man without denying herself? Can two women love the same man without tearing each other apart? Can a man love two women without lying? What dilemmas will families and friends of the parties involved have to endure? To this day these are recurring and often painfull questions.