Micha Ela tells her life story as a transsexual woman.
As a gay boy in the northern German provinces, "Michi" experienced all the problems of being gay in society in the 1980s.
The foster family in which Michi is growing up wants to cure him of his "disease" by committing him to a psychiatric ward. He then ends up in a youth center in Osnabrück and experiences his coming out here, still very naive.
After graduating from high school, Michael worked as a dancer in various theaters until he finally realized that he was actually a dancer and therefore no longer wanted to dance male roles.
As a prima ballerina, however, he did not get an engagement, left the theater and from then on danced as a travesty artist in the cabaret of his then partner on Lake Constance.
