The beginning of New Zealand director Jane Campion’s career is inseparably connected to the Pandora Filmverleih. Even before the success of “The Piano” (which was the commercial breakthrough for Pandora as well), distributors spread a second feature film by Jane Campion to German cinemas. As a result, New Zealand got more public attention. An Angel at My Table tells the life story of author Janet Frame who was born in New Zealand in 1924. Like in Frame’s autobiography, Campion has divided the ordeal of the author into three chapters: from her teenage years to the eight years she spent in a psychiatric ward, all the way to her journeys as an adult – it is the story of a woman whose life was possibly saved by her writing.