My story is certainly not unique. On the contrary, I have simply done what many people in similar situations would consider, but have not done - whether it be due to fear of not being able to offer their children a decent life or being excluded from the dominant society. But when childless couples today increasingly rely on the help of sperm banks – a service that is still denied for lesbian families – when more and more families with two mothers or fathers profess their way of life and we increasingly discuss surrogacy, which, although not yet in federal legislation, has long since become a reality in Switzerland, then it is time to adopt the concept of an evolved version of the nuclear family as an equally adequate form of parenthood. Because regardless of what life plan, each of us claims for ourselves, they are all part of a diverse reality and should therefore be able to be lived openly and legally.

That neither my history nor ours can be changed is a fact. This is why the aim of this film is an attentive reflection on the many questions and contradictions that arise, both with regard to my decision to become a mother and the decision to film my story. When I ask myself today what my daughter will think of her origins, but also of this film in the foreseeable future, I can only answer this to the extent that I, as a mother, openly deal with our family story in a way that is appropriate to my daughter’s age and level of maturity, and that I, as a filmmaker, had to make this film partly in order to fulfill my responsibility to her.

Marina Belobrovaja