As I walked to the plane, all alone, I thought: 'Nuremberg, goodbye! Either I'll come back as a woman or I'll stay at the operating table.«
Hermann is 40, a father of a family in the Franconian province when he found out in 1970 that the operation that could turn him from man to woman was being offered in Casablanca.
He was one of the very first to take a risk that was hardly imaginable at the time.
Even the 5-year-old, in the middle of Nazi Germany, in the poorest of circumstances, knows that his gender doesn't suit him. "There was just something inside me that was overwhelming." But there are still no words for what he feels like transsexuality. So he gets married, starts a family, and rises in the economic boom. But only at night, secretly, in women's clothes, does he feel right. After the operation, Helga's second life begins. She learns what it's like to be a woman. And that the confusion doesn't stop there.
