Rashin was born in Rasht on the Caspian Sea coast. After attending university, she was just 23 when she moved to Teheran on her own. There she worked as a bilingual secretary for a French oil company. During a visit to Berlin she fell in love and, at the age of 30, moved to the German capital to marry Thomas, a student. She quickly picked up the German language, but in the beginning she had no work and felt lonely. And then something changed her life completely…