A childhood in the idyllic pilgrimage site of Altötting – filled with abuse, humiliations, bigoted, violent priests, and closet Nazis. Andreas Altmann looks back unflinchingly at a violent father, a mother too weak to protect her son, and a child fighting for survival. What becomes of someone who has survived their "shitty youth"? In four stories from "This Shitty Beautiful Life," the "one who got away" recounts his life after Altötting.