An amazing story of an open cross-dresser in living and East Berlin an how he over comes prejucies to live a trimphant life.

As a child in pre-war Berlin,Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf wanted nothing more than to try on the pretty taffeta dresses she saw in shop windows,and to dust and oil her furniture collection to a shine.She would have made a perfect hausfrau.The only problem was that Charlotte was a boy.

Hailed by Der Spielgel as speaking to the fate of a whole generation of German homosexuals,here is the amazing story of mild-mannered transvestite who triumphed over a violent childhood and the brutalities of both the Nazis and Communists to carve out a dignified life as an open cross-dresser in East Berlin.