From the Balkans, the history of guest workers in Germany, and a love without borders.
Miko has disappeared. No one knows where he went. While his wife Lena and daughter Maja wait for his return, Lena tells his story. Maja should know who her father is. But to understand that, she must also know the history of his family from the former Yugoslavia, because Miko would not be Miko without stealing cherries from the neighbor's tree. Without the trucks from the paper factory rushing past gorges full of car wrecks, and a mother who was once the most beautiful girl in Sarajevo. Without his brother Silan, who shines on the dance floor and is not even intimidated by a gun, and without Dragan, the eldest brother, who achieves great success and then crashes and burns.
A wild journey from a Montenegrin village to 1980s Germany, from the Catholic quarter of Sarajevo to the sparkling strobe lights of Bochum's discos. And gradually, we learn everything about the great love that led to Maja's existence and about Miko's mysterious disappearance.
In her debut, Ines Habich-Milović vividly and freshly narrates the curse and blessing of family and the love that transcends all borders.
