Anna is a portrait of Anna Rheinsberg, and an attempt by Christanell to see herself in her friend: What do women of a certain age have in common, whatconstitutes femininity? One answer would be the objects in one’s life, and what one does with them.
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis, her father Arthur Kemper, a well-known Jewish journalist, has to flee to Zurich. His family, Anna, her twelve-year-old brother Max and her mother Dorothea, follow him shortly thereafter. Anna has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and to face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.
