Southern Germany, 1984. Under the growing pressure of the Cold War, eleven-year-old Frieda begins to sense that her family conceals a secret, passed down through generations. Searching for the truth about her missing sister, she pushes back against the adults’ silence with the power of her imagination, as the fear finds its echo within her family. Told through the eyes of a child, the film explores female generational trauma, inherited silence and magical realism.