A city on the mend and making steady progress…the world becomes tangible, available, is waiting to be conquered. Hildegard is ambitious. She fought in a war, sang songs, exposed her left breast, and cut if off. She can tell you what it means to be a woman in Berlin, a city in seventy-year limbo between destruction, rubble and shiny new capitalism. Amongst the ruins of her past and a nation ravaged by war, HILDEGARD/KNEF explores a world of death, destruction and music, where everything is under.