While trying to cope with the daily realities of her existence in an old people’s home, Gerda Wendt looks back on her childhood and adolescence, on her passion for astrophysics and the raised eyebrows it provoked, and on the tough choice that she had to make back in the summer of her life: the choice between love and a career abroad… Subtle and deep, moving and funny, sad and true, Gerda’s reflections seek to answer the question that keeps us all awake in the small hours: have I lived a good life?