“Dear diary, my heart is in pain. I want it to stop. But it won’t. It never will. Only if it stops beating all together. I am so ashamed.”
Diary entries and old VHS recordings, once mute witnesses of violence, speak out today and contribute to a family kaleidoscope in which the wish for a normal family becomes painfully clear when we take off to our first family holiday.
Family
Postcard to Daddy
As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused – by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members.
Learning to Milk a Cow
To Bavaria and back in search of heritage lost.