Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.
Zuhal Olcay
as Elif
Brigitte Janner
as Marianne
Ruth Olafsdottir
as Gabriella
Barbara Morawiecz
as Nora
Brigitte Böttrich
as Christine
Tatjana Clasing
as Barbara
Erla Prollius
as Wärterin
Eva-Maria Kurz
as
Petra Barthel
as
Çelik Bilge
as
Birgül Topçugürler
as
Annemarie Assmann
as
