Back to Bremen depicts the true, World War II story of Marta Röpke, a common mother who risks everything to see that her eight children might survive the war that has come to her doorstep.   As Bremen’s ports and factories bear the brunt of payloads from RAF Wellingtons and Lancasters, the Röpke’s lives are defined by unrelenting Allied bombing raids, streets strewn with dead bodies, and the ever-present reminder to trust no one outside the family.

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Seen through daughter Edith’s eyes as a child and through her memories as an adult seventy-five years after the war’s end, Back to Bremen lays bare the story of a child’s fear and the sheer determination of a mother risking it all so she and her children can return home.  Through a decade that includes air raids, capture by the Soviet Red Army, and a nine-week walk back to Bremen, Marta's story is a vivid reminder that war creates countless victims, but a mother’s love can turn a common woman into a heroine.