It’s summer and very hot in Germany’s only open-air swimming pool for women. There, women swim topless, in bikini, swimsuit or burkini. Each of them follows different rules. This leads again and again to friction, which the overtaxed lifeguard does not quite have under control. When a group of completely veiled women enthusiastically discover the women’s pool for themselves, the sparks literally fly: Who owns the bath and who decides the rules? Who owns the female body? And when is a woman a woman anyway?
The pool attendant quits in exasperation. But when a man, of all people, is hired as her successor, the situation escalates in unforeseeable directions. The graphic novel based on Doris Dörrie’s movie, Freibad
