Die Innere Sicherheit plot
Teenager Jeanne grew up on the beaches of Portugal. Her German parents are former political activists wanted for armed actions. They live 'underground'. Jeanne knows nothing but the always secretive and suspicious behavior of her parents. One day, her parents decide to travel from Le Havre to Sao Paulo to live a normal legal life in Brazil. From harbor to harbor across a sea of hope. But as Klaus, an old friend of Jeanne's parents, tries to explain to her in the film, the metaphorical sea takes many guises. Klaus tells Jeanne about the American writer Herman Melville, who in his famous Moby Dick described the temptations and fate of the sailor of figurative seas. Then Jeanne's parents have to return to Germany due to circumstances - a fearful and repressive Germany that seems to be on a massive hunt for illegal immigrants. Joan falls in love. Through her contact with the ordinary outside world, she shakes her parents' paranoid house of cards. They will never be able to make the sea journey to Brazil. Living a normal life turns out to be too much of a wish.
