Autobiography of a gynecologist who writes about the medical treatment of transsexual and intersex people in the GDR era. The emeritus professor leafs through old records, letters, and pictures. That's when he comes across a photograph of a little boy sent to him by grateful parents. The doctor's intervention had helped them to be able to hold their long-awaited child in their arms.
There are many testimonies of successful work and happy patients, but also memories of difficult hours of desperate struggle for a human life. Helmut Kraatz reports on how difficult it was for his parents to let their son study, and what obstacles he had to overcome before the musically gifted high school student became an internationally recognized and highly honored gynecologist.
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