!AUS

!Aus….it happened in the west.

At the age of 19, Margarete flees from her violent master. She is seduced by the historically famous poster with the inscription «From maid to colonial lady». In the year 1913 the «German Association for Women» shipped her to South-West Africa in order to marry a settler she never met. She does not find the paradise she had hoped for, but she bravely embraces the foreign world and the experiences that her new life brings.

It is the story of ordinary people who experienced the incredible in a faraway place. A story based on true events, which, against the backdrop of both world wars, brings to light a hidden piece of Germanys colonial history.