With books like "The Drama of the Gifted Child" (1979) and "The Body Never Lies," Alice Miller became world-famous as a childhood researcher. Her approach to the power of repressed childhood trauma influenced millions. What remained hidden was that she completely failed in her relationship with her own children. In this book, Martin Miller speaks out for the first time and tells the tragic life story of his mother, who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and began a new life in Switzerland after the war, a life in which her son had no place, neither as a child nor as an adult. It is a gripping testimony of a desperately troubled mother-son relationship.