Pham Thi Lien Huong

On a sweltering Berlin day, Şirin picks up her aunt Bihar for a spontaneous trip to the countryside, where queer joy, intergenerational tension, and buried migrant memories rise to the surface under the summer sun.

The clatter of sewing machines, the clatter of memories. In 1987, the Saxon town of Werdau was looking for workers for the textile industry. Due to full employment, the jobs were advertised in Vietnam, as was customary in the GDR at the time. Many came, and some stayed.