At high school my mother fell in love with her economy teacher. A few month after she graduated they got married. She was 18 and he 28. Since then they kept marrying and divorcing each other - until now altogether three times. Ten years ago, at the age of 58, my father had found the love of his life and left my mother to start another family in another town. My mother stayed alone with her mother in the house, suffering from severe depression. In 2006 my father's girlfriend died and on the day of her burial my father moved back with my mother. My mother, her mother and my father lived together for the next two years in a strange union which nevertheless seemed to function in its own way.

Since their last reunion during my visits home I photographed the everyday life of my family in order to understand and analyse their relationships. I was interesting in recording the scope of various interactions between my parents. Their relationship is characterised by domination and subjection, by mutual interdependence and willing as well as partly unconscious acceptance of certain "roles". Yet such details usually remain absent from or only accidentally captured by standard family photographs. My images immobilise the flow of family life and accentuate certain moments, offering my version of my family's story, which is often rather ironical and critical, yet always very subjective and personal.

In 2008 my grandmother died and although my parents remain together, I stopped taking photographs of them.

Images are combined with a soundtrack of my mother's and father's verbal account of their lives from the moment they had met until my father's return, read by me and my husband. The voices are montage so that they overlap, making their individual and often contradicting accounts difficult to understand.