They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a confident, energetic career woman who has managed to work her way up to become a successful television journalist. She goes to visit her parent's country, to do a story about the children of immigrant workers in their home country. Although she says she doesn´t need a "home" any more, even she feels strange in her own country. Peter is a rather "untypical" sort of man: a dreamer, a thinker. He has given up his steady job as a composer for advertising films and is divorced. He goes to Jugoslavia to find something out about the past. He travels to the places where his father was stationed during the Second World War.

Barbara Sukowa
Katharina

Horst-Günter Marx
Peter

Velimir Živojinović
Onkel Savo

Rade Šerbedžija
Dušan

Ljiljana Kontić
Mutter
Stela Ćetković
Danica
Igor Hajdarhodžić
Nikola

Milan Erak
Motorradfahrer

Veljko Mandić
Alter Ivo
Dušanka Todić
Tante Gordana
Silva Povšić
Tante Ljubica

Svjetlana Knežević
Gatshofswirtin

The Secret Life of Words
The Secret Life of Words

All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front

The Far Sky
The Far Sky

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

The State I Am In
The State I Am In

The Reader
The Reader

The Edge of Heaven
The Edge of Heaven

Der Rücktritt
Der Rücktritt

Diplomatic Courier
Diplomatic Courier

The Peaks of Zelengore
The Peaks of Zelengore

Taiwan Canasta
Taiwan Canasta

Snipers Valley
Snipers Valley