Tyska Tårar/ Before the porch roof falls down on us is an psychological journey from old Nazi Germany to an odd gang of inhabitants living in an old, dilapidated house at the woods in the south of Sweden. The true story is the character Grandma (played by Iris Smeds). After she lived a glamorous life during the war she went to mental hospital for a decennium, and after that moved to the farm in the woods of south Sweden, who belonged to a lonely older farmer. In the film Grandma lives through her memories and spin on her growing madness. Ten years after her and the farmer's death, grandmas grandchild and a gang of people with her, take over the house and all of its belongings. Everything is left, just as the old couple just left for a week ago. They grow in to the house, into the stories about grandma herself, the surroundings, and the people living in there. Both theirs and grandmas life starts to accrete, and the different realities at two different times transforms into two parallel universes. The film discusses questions and dilemmas as gender and nationalism. How war and political ideals affects individuals, and their destinies. “TYSKA TÅRAR/Before the porch roof falls down on us” is the first movie made and produced by Sara-Vide Erickson, Hilda Ekeroth and Iris Smeds.Längd; 24 min