Germany's true love: Lilo Wanders! But who is Lilo if she is not Lilo? Ernie Reinhardt! Just in time for his 70th birthday, Ernie looks back on his life, on growing up in the Lower Saxony province in the 1950s, on the search for sexual identity as a young man in Hamburg, on his career as a stage artist and finally on the creation of Lilo Wanders, which burned itself into the collective memory of an entire generation.