The film series Ich wäre nicht gekommen (I would not have come) is based on my experience of working as a translator at an NGO. The women there tell their story and I translate that. My role is solely to translate that back and forth between patient and therapist. My own consternation remains largely outside the frame. These stories are used by me as a basis for staging myself using the languages Arabic, Russian, German. They are emotional images of the women in me. N.A.