BRD 1978 | Director, Script, Production: Roswitha Ziegler, Niels Bolbrinker | Camera: Niels Bolbrinker | Music: Gustav Mahler | Colour | DCP of 16mm | 62 min | german OV | Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek

This documentary film is about the shared lives of three generations of women on a farm (a mid-sized operation in Lower Saxony): Grandmother Hermine (82), farmer Helga (45), and daughter Heidrun (21). The lives of the mother and grandmother are marked year in, year out by work in the rhythm of the seasons. Their hard labour will maintain the farm for future generations. Though she currently works as a dental assistant in a nearby town, the daughter will also marry a farmer. She wants to be a farmer because "now I work for a piece of paper at the end of the month, and on the farm, I can see the labour of my hands." The grandmother has internalised her dedication to work. It is her purpose in life; she has known nothing else, and has had no alternative. Her daughter-in-law's life is no different. (R. Ziegler, N. Bolbrinker, 1988)