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How one woman's secret changed many lives.

A digital story about the time I shared with my father after my mother died. Watching old photographs, reading letters from the time when they were fiancees - talking, remembering...

A digital story about my fathers childhood and youth in Germany between 1925 and 1947. He is reading fragments from old letters.

Music: Heaven by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. The german military march Lily Marlen by Marlene Dietrich.

As a young boy growing up during the Apartheid years in South Africa, Mhlangabezi rarely saw his father, who worked in the city to support the family.  When his father passed away, life got even harder, and Mhlangabezi had to give up his dream of tertiary education.  While he finds glimpses of happiness, he wonders today if the sun will ever come out and give light to his hopes for the future.