Six lesbians who created a private world for themselves despite state repression speak out about life behind the Wall in East Germany. Through intimate romances and lives as mothers and workers, these women, from both rural and metropolitan areas, found a way to exist.

Uferfrauen conveys the omnipresent feeling of loneliness as an outsider, the social taboo of homosexuality, the compulsion to conform and adapt in a repressive state – a life on the (private) fringes of society, always in personal conflict, risking the jump into the deep end or staying on the safe shore.

Despite their differences, the protagonists were all pursuing the same goal: the search for personal (love) happiness.