Michelle in Hawaii

“It’s not that I don’t care about what he did, it’s just that it never affected my love for him.”
Hawaii – paradise on Earth. People who live here have everything they need to be happy.
But not Michelle. Her fiancée is in prison for dealing drugs. Michelle has been working as a waitress to support their son ever since. Five days a week she toils away from noon to night in the local Boys Café. But it’s still not enough, and at the weekends she does the rounds on the Hawaii beaches with a lunch truck.

These days she’s almost forgotten the woman she was before Frank was sent to prison: singer in a rock band. Every weekend she used to be on stage and it was during one of these appearances that Frank fell in love with her. That was more than 20 years ago. But since then things kept going wrong. Frank discovered drugs and ended up behind bars – again and again.
This time Frank has been in for three years. But this time he’s made use of the time: he’s finished with drugs and has become the model inmate while in prison. Frank is up for bail soon – his only chance for freedom.
A time of hope and worry for Michelle. And a tense time for Annette Dittert, who didn’t leave Michelle’s and Frank’s side for four weeks, who was allowed to be there and film during the pivotal moments in prison.

Annette Dittert (b.1962)
has been working as a TV editor for WDR for many years. She was in charge for and moderated several programs before she became the head of the ARD studio in Warsaw as foreign correspondent for three years. In 2004 she received the well respected Hans-Friedrichs-Award for extraordinary achievements in journalism