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Deportation after more than 30 years in Germany - What happened that it could come so far? And what’s next for the family? The 40-year-old screenwriter and social worker BAHAR is confronted with these questions when she learns that her brother TANER (38) is to be deported to Turkey. When exactly will the deportation take place? Will Taner get out of prison? And will a new start in Turkey be possible for the family? Bahar uses this time of waiting and uncertainty to hold the camera on her family members. In calm and sensitive imagery, she explores the family’s emotional and geographical worlds of uprooting and new beginnings between Germany and Turkey - while Taner’s feelings and thoughts in prison are explored only through his voice in phone calls. With this film, Bahar claims a territory for her family while being squeezed between two countries and a state of in-between.