Heinrich

How much do our origins and childhood shape us? Is there a second life beyond the old experiences? A search for traces. Heinrich is a creative mind, successful architect and entrepreneur. He develops forward-looking ideas at his drawing table. He comes from a difficult background: As the only child of a divorced woman and a member of the German minority, he grows up in the poverty-stricken quarter of a small Polish town. When the Germans invaded in autumn 1939, the young man had opportunities for advancement that ended in war service and Russian captivity. In 1949 he arrives in West Germany, where he starts a family and succeeds in a dizzying career. His unloved origins, however, haunt him beyond his successes. The story begins with an accident: a large mirror breaks. Shortly before, little Heinrich had seen his future in it, which now seems lost. Unless the broken pieces can be reassembled into a whole. Susanne Fritz sets out to find his father, combining dream and memory, chronicle and fiction. It is about nothing less than the riddle of man: what can we know about the other, what about ourselves? How much do our origins and childhood shape us? Is there a second life beyond the old experiences?