Evie Steppman wuchs in den 1950er Jahren in Nigeria auf, den letzten Jahren der britischen Kolonialherrschaft. Als Kind entwickelte sie ein fantastisches Gehör, heute, im Alter von vierundfünfzig, droht sie, das Gehör zu verlieren. So sitzt sie alleine auf dem Dachboden ihres Hauses in Schottland, umgeben von Gegenständen aus ihrer Vergangenheit und läßt ihr Leben Revue passieren, bevor die Welt um sie herum im dumpfen Rauschen versinkt.
In coming into the world Evie Steppman pushed her mother out of it. Born two months late but with an extraordinary gift of hearing Evie has an impression of the world vastly different to the experiences of other people. Taking us from Nigeria in the 1950s to 1970s America and finally on to Scotland in the early twenty-first century she tells us the strange story of her origins and life through her unique sensory gifts. It is a story of colonialism and empire of love and death of hope and fear of mystery and strangeness and above all of sound and an unwanted but inevitable silence.
In coming into the world Evie Steppman pushed her mother out of it. Born two months late but with an extraordinary gift of hearing Evie has an impression of the world vastly different to the experiences of other people. Taking us from Nigeria in the 1950s to 1970s America and finally on to Scotland in the early twenty-first century she tells us the strange story of her origins and life through her unique sensory gifts. It is a story of colonialism and empire of love and death of hope and fear of mystery and strangeness and above all of sound and an unwanted but inevitable silence.







