Walchensee Forever

Janna Ji Wonders' family saga begins and ends on a beautiful lakeshore in Bavaria, where her great grandmother opened a small café in 1920. This is where ghost of the past still hover; where her grandmother, who masterfully managed the café, grew up; this is where her mother and aunt were raised, from where the two fled to the end of the world, drifted and performed as musicians, joined a hippie commune and entered a harem before returning to the lake; and this is where she grew up and the place where she has tried, from childhood, to decipher the story of the women in her family, and find a place for herself within it. This is a complex and dramatic story, about five generations of women, a story that has love, heartbreak, immense closeness, and hope, and it is told and filmed with extraordinary delicacy.