Rena (Thekla Carola Wied) is a family therapist; she is married with two grown-up sons. She travels with her elderly mother Edith (Kyra Mladeck) to Norway, the land where she was born in 1943 in a “Lebensborn Home”, part of the Nazi programme to raise members of the master race. Rena wants to discover the truth about her origins at last, and to find out how involved her mother was a Nazi politics. A sense of disquiet about her own identity has accompanied Rena for as long as she remember and is now increasingly a burden on her relationship with her husband Jan (Rüdiger Vogler) and her own children. But Edith refuses to provide any satisfactory answers to her daughter's questions. When they are back in Munich a mysterious Herr Friedrich (Michael Altmann) appears, claiming that he is also a “Lebensborn child”. He wants Edith to help them discover his true identity at last, but she also refuses to provide him with any information. In fact, over decades Edith has created a sophisticated structure of lies, suppression and denial, and is only now that Rena is 60 years old that she toured the truth. "She is My Mother“ depicts the delicate process the two women undergo in order to come to terms with the situation; despite all the difficulties, in the end Rena is able to accept her mother and make peace with her…