Four generations of women, a tragic legacy and the powerful beauty of wind and sea
For 38-year-old Doro, a dream has come true with her job in an offshore wind farm – until she has to be evacuated from a wind turbine during a storm. Doro suffers a panic attack that still has an effect on her the next day: she just wants to get from Heligoland to the mainland, to her grandmother Elsie's house. But as soon as she approaches the shore, she is seized by dizziness and violent trembling. Is this what Elsie had repeatedly warned her about? But where does this inexplicable fear come from? Her sense of self-understanding shattered, the pragmatic Doro finally begins to ask all the questions that were never allowed to be asked in her family.
