Liebe Perla

Perla, a dwarf, is the last living member of a Jewish family of dwarfs that survived Dr. Mengele’s experiments in Auschwitz. She remembers that the Nazis documented her family on film, and dreams of finding the lost reel. Hannelore, a Christian dwarf born in postwar Germany, wants to help Perla fulfill her dream. As she conducts her search, Hannelore notices startling similarities between the Nazi’s goal of creating a perfect society and the “murder” of embryos and babies today, when they are diagnosed as having abnormalities. This story of the friendship between two very short women raises questions of birth and death, anger and forgiveness, and the basic right to life, of those who are different.