Stefanie de Velasco gives our image of the menopause a much-needed makeover and makes what is perhaps the best time of our lives shine.

The gray hair was a shock, then came the sleep deprivation and this uncontrollable anger at everything and everyone, but menopause? - That's an exaggeration, thought Stefanie de Velasco and felt radically insecure.
Most people are caught cold when the first hot flush comes. Nobody prepares women for this phase. It has such a negative connotation in society that people prefer to keep it quiet.
In Heiß, Stefanie de Velasco tells a very personal story about one of the biggest taboos in our society: the menopause - with all its horrors, but also its promise. For what if this time did not mark the end of womanhood and the beginning of invisibility, but rather a lively reorientation, the start of a new, powerful, truly independent identity?