Blind

In the organizer's words:

by Lot Vekemans

German by Eva Pieper and Alexandra Schmiedebach

in the Great House

Helen pays her father Richard a compulsory visit. Since he became a widower, the retired engineer has been living in a particularly secure and expensive residential complex. For Helen, this gated community is a hated "prison" - and this is not the only point in which the worldviews of father and daughter differ fundamentally. Richard rejects the contemporary discourse on diversity and social justice and therefore everything that Helen, as a lawyer and wife of a black intellectual, fights for.

fights for. She, on the other hand, accuses him of arrogance, racism and paternal failure. Helen had avoided contact in order to hide the smouldering conflicts and differences. Her long-standing avoidance strategy suddenly comes to an end when she learns that her father has fired his housekeeper at short notice and wants to transfer the care to his daughter from now on - a challenge for both of them. But then an alarm that automatically closes the shutters in the entire neighborhood chains the two of them together.

Lot Vekemans is as unsparing as he is empathetic in his

(*1965) tracks down the blind spots in a complementary relationship:

Can opposing convictions ever be overcome?