LIFE ON TAPE tells the story of director Melanie Lischker's mother from the early 1970s on, recorded by her father in over 100 hours of super 8- and video material. The climate of the time, torn between emancipation and a conservative way of though, rubs off on the biography of the young woman, who struggels to find and free herself from expectations towards her as wife and mother. In drawing a bow through the decades "Life on Tape" investigates the engagement of three generations of women with the traditional role allocations of their time.