Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin

Roswitha carries out abortions to feed her student husband Franz, and so she can afford to have more children. The police intervene and Franz is arrested. When he comes out of prison, Roswitha decides to enter politics and social work. A jigsaw made up of fiction, documentary images, Chinese shadows, drawings, quotations from films and texts. The film advances with Roswitha and her attempts to invent a revolt that she never manages to introduce into her own family.