"Malina" begins as a seemingly romantic relationship: a woman between two men. However, she does not get along with either of them and it soon becomes clear that there is more than just romantic chaos behind the disturbed phone calls, mythical stories, nightly chess games and desperate monologues. Rather, it reveals the life of a woman who dreams of overcoming the boundaries of language and the violence of the past, but always falls back on a feeling of being a stranger in the world: a stranger with her desire to belong, a stranger with her need for autonomy. Bachmann poetically and eloquently explores what it means when one's own hopes do not coincide with social expectations. How does it feel to want to love and to say "I" in a world that knows no "we"?