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It's been years since Akin has been in and out of the hospital. He's relentless, angry, and shell-shocked from being stuck in the system. As he loses touch with his true self, his mind shifts into another reality.

Paul leaves his wife, his job and his middle-class existence behind. Without suspecting that private detective Klinger is chasing him, he lets himself drift through life. Until he finally meets Nele, who awakens in him the desire to arrive somewhere. Julian Pörksen's award-winning film is a humorous, melancholic ode to the joy of missing out.

Michael Winter tries to start over when he moves into an old appartment in Schmuckstraße, Hamburg, with his wife Friederike and his daughter Selma. But this place has a dark history: This used to be a Chinatown - brutally cleansed by the Nazis.

30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain the legacy of the German Democratic Republic is at stake in the ruins of the 'Progress' factory. Once producing harvester machinery the factory grounds today house asylum seekers who are confronted by weekly racist demonstrations in East Germany. Former factory workers of 'Progress' help Syrian refugees with their German Integration Course. What starts with a German language lesson in the 'Progress' ruin ends with classes of political education and a GDR military camp. Driven by the personal entanglement of the director the re- enactments are deconstructed and the social conditioning of the GDR everyday life becomes apparent. In this memory work the language itself is of importance which invites assumptions, but never confirms them. It wallows in memories and forbids itself to do so at the same time. Archive material re-establishes the bond of a socialist friendship between the GDR and Syria that connected both countries in the 1980s. The local choir comments with GDR-songs whereby everyone and everything stands for more than just himself. The 'Progress' ruin becomes a symbol of the lost homeland which blurs the borders between the GDR and Syria and between the past and today. The attempt of a convergence, a socialist utopia.