Rascha and the Door to Heaven

For Rascha, Ima is the dearest person. There is always a smile on his grandma’s face, even when she looks serious. Ima doesn’t say many words – and when she does, they are sentences like boulders, so powerful that no one can get past them.

When Ima decides to move into a retirement home because she can’t manage the stairs any longer, the family faces a turbulent time. Fortunately, the home is not far away and here a small miracle happens for Rascha: Ima gives him a fool’s dress for carnival. A real old one, the kind that almost doesn‘t exist any more!

Just before the long-awaited festival, the family learns that Ima is very ill. But she sees no reason to mope. “You’re supposed to celebrate Shrovetide!” is Ima’s boulder sentence. Rascha experiences his first Shrovetide as a jester – and what a Shrovetide it is! Rascha can understand why Ima sets off to join Grandpa Karle in heaven on this day of all days.