Stories slumber behind the facade

Why is my mother the way she is? Unsettled by her mother's nature, Christina Schwalm begins to question her mother's make-up façade over the course of her life. Why are other things more important to her than the emotional needs of her children? Why is she always striving for something higher? Driven by the urgent desire to find out more about her mother and her family, the author delves into the past. Her research takes her to Buenos Aires, where her grandparents, her mother and some relatives once lived, to Chile and to various parts of Switzerland. With the help of photos, memories of her relatives and her mother's written legacy, she reconstructs the exciting story of a Swiss emigrant family.