Love Me Tender

Constance Debré describes the path of a woman who breaks away from her life and seeks radical freedom. In doing so, she encounters social boundaries and scratches at narratives that are actually only intended for men. She has given up or left everything that is solid: her job as a lawyer, her husband, her place of residence, the entire prosperity of her middle-class existence. She begins to write and falls in love with women. For this, she is punished by having her child taken away.


Between loneliness and fulfillment, the longing for her son and the fleeting moments of closeness that she seeks in the arms of ever new lovers, the plan for a new life beyond all boundaries unfolds. Can the grief over what has been left behind be reversed?


Marie Rosa Tietjen, Zino Wey and Laura Landergott are planning an evening together to search for traces and question this text. Perhaps true freedom can only be found at the crossroads of social norms.