Like a still from a film, the painting shows a young woman emerging out of the water of a lake. Drops and rivulets – painted in perfect transparency – run over her face. Her gaze fixes the viewer with full, slightly curled lips. She seems surprised, questioning, maybe a little defiant – but in any case vulnerable.

Only on second view does one recognize the wound below her collarbone: but more than her body was injured, there is a sense of violation; the disturbance of her innermost being and – not least – her soul.