Toxi

This German sliceoflife drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma At the time the film was made there were over 3000 children living in Germany whod been fathered by African American GIs Referred to as mischlings these children were often treated as outcasts because of their illegitimacy and skin color One such mischling is Toxi played by herself who is sent to live with her American father when her mother dies At first Toxi is welcomed with opened arms but the father who already has two children has neither the time nor the money to care for the girl Toxi is then bundled off to an orphanage sparking a serious rift in her fathers family By concentrating on a highly fictionalized plotline Toxi tends to ignore the thousands of other mischlings whose lives are far more complex and tragic than that of the films central character