‘Don’t have any children,’ the author’s mother said, in response to the question: ‘what’s your greatest wisdom?’ posed to her by her own daughter when she was 10. Forty years down the road this book springs out of investigating just what this wisdom is all about. The book thus offers reflections on the state of being childless.

In this book Camelia Elias introduces key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film.

Four Danish scholars analyze the film Derrida (2002).