Moderation: N.N. A secretly slaughtered sheep marks the beginning of a look into a family's innermost secrets. Here, the great-grandmother stirs blood for sausages, the great-uncle sleeps for fifteen years, and the grandmother steals roof tiles at night. In the end, there is great-granddaughter Alma, who pieces together the fragments of her family history: from the sparse everyday life on a farm by the North Sea, through the war and a new beginning far from home, to the present day, when grandmother must move to a care home and Alma realizes she is the last link in the family chain. Anna Maschik, born in Vienna, studied language art/literary writing and comparative literature in Vienna and Leipzig. She worked as production manager of a theater festival and teaches...
