Noah and his mother Susanne are driving through a corn field looking for a space platform which will finally send Susanne to the moon. Noah entered the competition and won the trip for his mother. After all, she has always wanted to leave ‒ back then it was East Germany, then the psychiatric ward, then all the relationships she ever had, and most of all, she wanted to leave him, Noah. He was more of a plan to escape than anything to tie her down. She wanted to go to Angola, take Noah to his father and then move on. The confidential informants had a different view. Now thirty years have passed and life has continued. Noah left home, he loved, had casual jobs, became a father, he’s always wanted to draw a comic. Susanne fell in love with men, then women, and then she scared everyone away. Now they’re speeding through the back country of eastern Germany and Lila jumps right in front of their car. A young woman who “loves sore spots”. And she is also looking for something ‒ her oversized dog Pozzo, who keeps on growing and growing and is waiting somewhere for everyone, so he can push them through the universe in a houseboat.

This is the story of an adolescent in East Germany. It is Noah’s story. His father George leaves the family shortly after Noah is born. Her returns to Angola, where he was once born. In Noah’s story, George is the absent father. However, it is not Noah yearning for him but his mother Susanne. And Susanne never yearns for her son. Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien/Corn in Germany and Other Galaxies is also the story of Noah’s mother Susanne. She was born in East Germany and is misunderstood early on. Consequently she revolts against everyone and everything ‒ against her parents, against the state, against motherhood. Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien is a fairy tale and a comic, repeatedly invaded by reality.