“Monsters Like Us” is the story of old friends Ruth and Viktor in the last days of Communist East Germany. They are inseparable since kindergarten, but are forced to go their different ways to escape their difficult childhood: Ruth into music and the life of a professional musician; Viktor into violence and a neo-Nazi gang. Monsters Like Us is a story of families, a story of abuse, a story about the search for redemption and the ways it takes shape over generations.

Karen Leeder and Ulrike Almut Sandig also recorded an episode for the podcast series „Nach dem Gedicht / After the Poem”, a part of the research project „AfterWords.Positioning German Poetry in the 20th Century and Beyond" at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Oxford, in cooperation with Haus für Poesie.