Documentary follows historian Edgar Feuchtwanger back to Munich where he spent his childhood, before fleeing across the Channel. He fled Nazism in February 1939 at the age of 14, joined by his parents three months later, became a historian.

The film is taken from the eponymous book by Bertil Scali published in 2012, during a trip to Munich. Here he is in the apartment where he lived from his birth in 1924 until his exile. The place has today become the headquarters of a company.