Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance press photographer and single mother living in 1970s West Berlin, is confronted with the fact that "a cook has no time for affairs of state". She also fails to find a market for the project she has been working on with her women′s photography group that seeks to document the city. While from today′s perspective the city, which becomes one of the film′s protagonists, looks like post-war Berlin, little has actually changed as regards the precarious existence of free-lancers. With a heavy dose of self-irony Helke Sander, who also plays the leading role, tells of a divided life in a divided city.
Helke Sander
as Edda Chiemnyjewski
Joachim Baumann
as Sternreporter
Andrea Malkowsky
as Dorothea Chiemnyjewski
Ronny Tanner
as Werner
Gesine Strempel
as Fotografin
Gislind Nabakowski
as Fotografin
Gisela Zies
as Fotografin
Helga Storck
as Fotografin
