Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.

Kaskara shows "a balance of being trapped in a broken space." (Dore O.) The impressionistic film offers glimpses of the Swedish countryside through the window and door frames of a vacation home, contrasted with images of a wrecking ball at the Altona train station.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.