In the organizer's words:

What would you risk to be free?

A woman, a successful lawyer in the capital, decides to leave her family after twenty years of marriage in order to put herself to the test, to live anew, to write only, to love anew - or not to love at all, but only to desire. The price for this "self-expropriation": her husband forcibly separates her from their eight-year-old son and instigates a custody battle under false pretenses. The narrator is rigid with pain, fights for physical strength and emotional armor with manic, daily swimming training. She fights for her son, who is drifting further and further away from her, teetering between a multitude of feelings: Anger, fear, the desire for non-committal sex and the need for closer connections, a deep inner emptiness and at the same time a freedom she has never known before. Author Constance Debré takes a hard look at social norms and at herself. After "Nora", "Die Freiheit einer Frau" and "Baumeister Solness", director Felicitas Brucker continues her passionate exploration of the contradictions of female life plans and interprets "Love me tender" (translated into German by Max Henninger, published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2024) with a strong performance for three special actresses and (live) video.

"I'm interested in the fragility that occurs the moment you say goodbye to fulfilling social expectations and living up to what is celebrated as right, when you discard the beautiful, smooth, perfect images. Even in the theater, on stage. Because there is never any certainty."

- Felicitas Brucker