Olivia Marie Purka

Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era – but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror.

Emma works in a film archive and immerses herself in the queer scene of the 1980s in Vienna. Between the past and her present, Emma encounters conflicts, such as her friend Ira's experience of discrimination and her own search for an answer to the question what family means to her.