An intimate quest by a son to understand the identity of his father; a look back at the Berlin of the 30s and a special group of friends who loved life and, in the darkest hours of German history, ultimately chose good over evil.
In order to expand coal mining, the traditional town of Most in the Czech Republic was razed to the ground. Old buildings were demolished, a Gothic church was relocated, nature was poisoned, people were forced out of their environment. Only in the minds of the elderly does the town live on.
With its rich silver mines, the medieval town of Jáchymov had given its name to the dollar. A few centuries later, the town gave face to the horror of Soviet terror in Central Europe. The film tells of the second and terrible face of the old and idyllic spa town of Jáchymov in the uranium-rich, Bohemian Ore Mountains - a small town that survived despite communist labor camps for Soviet atomic bombs.
