The Homecoming

The film

Bernd Thiele would love to be “normal”, but his mother drank alcohol during pregnancy and damaged his brain. As a baby he was taken from his family by the Berlin youth welfare office. Bernd doesn’t know his mother, his father or his sister – he knows almost nothing about his past and his origins, because the 38-year-old spent his entire childhood and youth in children’s homes and with foster parents.

“Sometimes I think I’m a clone – that I’m not a real person at all,” says the wiry man sadly, who today looks after the pigs on an organic farm. But Bernd is determined to reclaim his identity and sets off with his quick-witted colleague Joann on a journey home into the past. Via Hamburg the two country men want to travel to Berlin, the city where Bernd was born – because there is a hot lead!