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1997. 7 ½ years after the "Wende" (German reunification). The year in which Johanna's grandma passes away.

Johanna's soul is in turmoil. No matter what she does, it's wrong. Suddenly, it's wrong to give the heir hunter of an uncle a piece of her mind at Grandma's funeral. Johanna doesn't give herself time, not to grieve and not to find peace. Crushed by ambivalent feelings, she runs herself ragged in her personal life and as an overworked intern, often hiding behind her camera.
 

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Is there such a thing as an Average Joe in the United States? Or does the sum of the average American features paints a very specific portrait: an American who doesn’t actually exist?

How do the Germans live and work? What are their favorite things? We take a look at statistics about the Germans and their lifestyles to find the German prototype.
 

The average human height has been trending taller for some time now, but some people are growing exceptionally tall. Journalist Sonka Hinders writes about the tallest woman in history and, more broadly, the experience of being tall.

Artist and community facilitator, Jessica Valoris, and Associate Professor of African American and US Religious History at Howard University, Renee K. Harrison, will open the program with an interactive offering that fuses video, dialogue, and ceremony to reflect on our role in shaping future public monuments in public spaces.