A summery urban novel between record and glamor by Sara Gmuer - "Hard and rough and beautiful." (Mareike Fallwickl)

"Unfulfilled dreams are also dreams. They're just much more dangerous." - Wanda imagined her life differently. Completely different. Instead of film shoots and premieres, she spends the hot summer days in the courtyard of a Berlin apartment block, where she lives on the eighteenth floor with her five-year-old daughter Karlie. The elevator is out of order and the stairwell is one big dead zone where, if you're unlucky, you can miss out on your whole life. At the other end of the city, on the other hand, anything seems possible. When Wanda is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, she plunges into a world where money is no object and doors are always open. But no matter how far she goes, the slab at her back never really gets any smaller. A raw and tender, fast-paced and finely observed novel about solidarity and self-realization and about how happiness is sometimes closer than we think.

SARA GMUER, born in Locarno in 1980, moved to Germany after graduating from Zurich Film School. She worked in front of the camera for Dominik Graf and Die Ärzte and on stage as a rapper. She wrote songs, wrote lyrics for agencies and found her very own voice. She lives in Berlin with her husband and children.

Time: 19.00, 18.00 Admission
Cost: 12€ adult, 6€ reduced
Location: Blankenheim, Eifelmuseum, Ahrstr. 55-57
Info-Tel.: 0651. 9790777
www.lit-eifel.de