No todos los árboles mueren de pie

This is the story of two women separated yet united, and it is also the story of one of the saddest periods in European history. Emmi, born shortly before Hitler came to power in Germany, loses her father in the war and has a difficult adolescence, working from a young age to help her family. It is in a bar she frequents with friends after work that she meets Markus, a man from East Berlin who writes her wonderful letters and with whom she falls deeply in love. Despite her mother's disapproval but her sister's support, Emmi decides to cross over and settles in East Germany. Born in the midst of the Cold War, M. is the perfect product of socialism: with an absent mother and raised by a nanny who adores plants, M. idolizes her father, who is completely detached from the Western world. But one day, while listening to a testimony arbitrarily, she will discover that the Wall hides secrets that she will have to face in order to find herself and, along the way, perhaps also that silent mother to whom she believed she had no connection.