Homeland

Jonathan Fabricus is a journalist living in West Germany at the end of the 1980s. In 1988 - the year before the Berlin wall comes down - he is asked by a car manufacturer to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia to write about the route for a car rally. It's a plum job, but his interest is piqued too by his own connection to those lands. Fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, his mother died in childbirth on the refugee route trail out of East Prussia and was buried in a village that under Allied victory was given over to what is now communist Poland. On this sometimes darkly comical and often dangerous road trip - where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications and violence is never far from the surface - Jonathan comes face to face with his painful family history, as well as devastating questions about ordinary Germans' complicity and guilt in the war.