Marco Schreyl - Alles gut? Das meiste schon.

In the organizer's words:

My parents, this nasty disease and me

The simple question "Are you OK?" has become one of the most popular greetings - but how should you answer it? Marco Schreyl can remember a time when all was not well at all, when worrying about his mother almost overwhelmed him, but he had no choice but to function and smile at the camera anyway.

In the summer of 2015, it was clear: Marco's mother had Huntington's disease, a hereditary brain disorder that leads to dementia and inevitably to death. Even before the diagnosis, it was clear that something was wrong; that his mother had not been the person he loved and who had always played a big role in his life for a while. Trying to maintain this closeness, to be there for his mother, would push him to his limits over the next few years.

Gradually, the illness made any caring, any communication impossible - and like his father before him, Marco had to realize that he could only lose. That he must protect himself in a consistent and brutal way: by withdrawing. Marco's mother dies in 2021, and Marco begins his own confrontation with the years of illness. And with the years before that.

He remembers his youth in Thuringia and vacations on the Baltic Sea, his parents as young, energetic people who had big plans in life. He remembers how his young family experienced the fall of communism and how he himself set out into the public eye and the media - where, years later, he can only answer the question "Is everything all right?" as follows: "Not everything, but most of it is!"

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