Ein unsichtbares Land

An unexpected reunion and a German story: In the early 1990s, an old-fashioned camera finds its owner again through winding and ghostly strange paths. It belongs to the nearly eighty-year-old father of the narrator, who had to hand over the device to a British naval officer in 1939 at the age of seventeen while at sea between Angola and Argentina, before being taken prisoner of war. The family of the German-national Protestant pastor and World War I veteran Andreas Wackwitz had emigrated from the Auschwitz area, the Galician border region between Poland, Austria-Hungary, and Upper Silesia, to Africa in 1933. The outbreak of World War II prevents their return. The eldest son, Gustav, spends seven years felling trees in a Canadian camp. His long-forgotten camera ends up in a depot in London.