Niklas Wetzel

Kerstin floats stoically across the Mecklenburg Lake District in her red GDR kayak. Aimlessly, between tourism and dreariness, she glides over the water for days, striving to remain alone. The many rivers and lakes are familiar to her. But where does Kerstin come from? What is she fleeing from? Who is pursuing her? The evenness of this journey breaks when Alima appears, finally asking the paddling loner the right questions.

À travers le regard d’un jeune ethnologue à l’éthique ambiguë, une fiction abordant le génocide commis au tournant du XXe siècle par l’Empire allemand dans ses colonies du Sud-Ouest africain.