Director Britta Hosman retraces her mother's family history. Her mother fled East Prussia with her parents as a four-year-old girl in the winter of 1945. They were among the 14 million Germans who fled from the Ost-Gebiete from the advancing Russian army. The personal quest provides a special insight into the course of history and the healing power of time in post-war Germany. What was then, what is now?