Lola's journey from the Blue Angel to the blues: Sex, songs and satire. Jackboots and jazz. Lola's voice rises through the smoking ruins of Berlin singing wistfully of the Weimar years; the loss of a people, the proscription of laughter; the anatomy of despair... Yet singing her way through it all Lola retains her sense of the comic, but it is comic tragedy set to the words and music of Friedrich Hollaender, Mischa Spoliansky, Hans Eisler as well as present day composers. She endures because her words become a mantra of survival and her music a hymn to future hope.