Lea turns thirty. Of all things. No life plan and no child in sight. Does she want to keep going at all? Become a mother? Be like her mother? She is still not quite independent, although she now lives abroad. Micha tries to calm herself, but soon guests come, and before that her mother calls. The doctors have discovered something, it could be bad. "She always knows when to call." Lea goes back to the mother. And stays. Three weeks later, Micha follows her. "At last I get to meet you. Doris. Just call me Doris." Doris is nice, very nice, and takes good care of her child, takes good care of her guest, is glad that there are those who can be taken care of again. Isn’t she herself ill?
Even after three months, Micha can not persuade Lea to return to the city. Lea's concentration on the relationship with her dominant, overbearing, but also needy mother turns Micha into a marginal figure. "We are always only one thing: mother and daughter. The tasks are distributed. Uneven but fair." Lea is not doing so well. Lea wants to go home, but she does not know where that is. Lea has a stomach ache. Since she has arrived here, she has no longer felt like herself, she no longer even has her period.
DORIS: You're pregnant. A mother can see that. It's much too early.
LEA: I'm not. No. It’s just the scrambled eggs that don’t agree with me.
Lea does not come back. Micha can not cope with her. But her mother is finally a mother again and not just a woman. A woman like the daughter, who can be a child again. Back to the abdomen. Back to the mother's belly. (Daniel Mezger)
In his piece Bauchlage, tthe young author Daniel Mezger describes, in a pressing but also finely comical way, the fears of a young woman about the final stage of growing up, and her failure in the face of her relationship with her mother.