Elisabeth Friedlander, typographer, calligrapher and migrant, developed the font “Elisabeth” in 1928 which is still used today. In 1936 she leaves Berlin, her mothers' violin in one hand, the portfolio with her work in the other. She battles her way through Europe, is able to financially survive thanks to her craft and skill and finally finds a new home in London. There, she counterfeits Wehrmacht seals for the secret service and continues to develop style-defying fonts, patterns and graphics. Like so many other women before and after her, design history disregards her and her memory is now lost.
But in this case, as it often happens, there is another artist that commemorates her. She undertook the painful search for the few documents that still exist and pieces them together. Using her own craft, she creates a filmic monument to bring Elisabeth Friedlander back to the collective memory of art history.