Inga (13) playing with her brother in her room. Inga has a ‘wandering kidney’, she already knows she will not be able to have children. Her brother Daniel was born with a tumour in his head, which luckily has disappeared. “He still has lumps in his neck. The doctors say these will also disappear, but I don’t know if I should believe them. They never explain anything to us”, says their mother Elvira. Her mother is solely responsible for the children, she forced her husband to leave because he was drunk all the time and had no work. (Half life book page 8)