It's always so awfully quiet at your place.

There are many ways to tell a story. But just one will change everything.
Ildingen, 1950sEvelina Borowska has everything she ever dreamed of: a house with a garden, a caring husband and a longed-for daughter Silvia. Despite this, she is not happy. She misses her job as a doctor and feels like an outsider in this small South German town. And Betti, her friend and sister-in-law, causes a lot of trouble with her sharp tongue and reckless driving.
1989
Berlin is heading towards a historic change, a new beginning. But Silvie Borowska is taking a step back. In a stolen car, he drives south from West Berlin. Her little daughter Hana is lying in the passenger seat in a laundry basket. She's only a few weeks old. Silvia is fed up with squat life and the father of her child never wants to hear from them again. But what awaits her in the provincial town she left so suddenly so many years ago? And how will her mother Evelina receive her?
Alena Schröder tells what was left unsaid in her award-winning debut novel The Girl in the Blue Dress in the Evening Light.