The Greek call it nostalgia – in German Heimweh. At the age of 82 Margot Friedlander begins a journey to resolve a life long search for home and identity. Surviving Nazi Germany hidden by Germans while her family was murdered in Auschwitz has left her with truly conflicted feelings.

After the death of her beloved husband – also a Holocaust survivor – she started to write her memoirs as part of a memoir writing class at the 92nd St. Fifty three years after her immigration to the United States she travels back to Berlin for the very first time to confront her unappeased yearning to return.