In 1941 the refugees, who were rejected by the U.S.A., because they were communist or they were considered as sympathizers of the communism, escaped to Mexico. In Marseille, which was overcrowded with refugees, there was a Mexican consul, who went far beyond his duty. He issued thousands visas and petitions, through which he freed German intellectuals from French concentration camps and enabled them to leave the occupied France. In 1994 some of the former refugees return to the ambassador in Mexico, who is 102 year- old as of today, and present him a certificate saying: “For Gilberto Bosques, who’s human magnitude will exist in our hearts for ever.”

The film presents people, ways, meeting points, and sites of history. We travel with the former refugees to Mexico and there we meet the ones, who stayed behind. The, as of today, 80 to 95 year-old Germans tell the mostly adventurous stories of their life, fates of refugees, who either stuck together or fought each other away from home, who either helped each other or fell apart because of ideological fights in the ditch, who always felt as Germans or who already feel as Mexicans.