A story about the search for family and origin, for identity and love. Not a good story. Arielle Freytag, in her early thirties, has actually made it: Growing up in the Katernberg district of Essen, she now earns a lot of money as a social media manager in Düsseldorf. Until a depression throws her off track and puts her in the > for a while . As soon as she is back home, Arielle receives a call from Katernberg, and for the first time in twelve years she returns to the place of her youth. Two girls have been missing there for a few days - which reminds Ariel with force of her mother, who disappeared without a trace twenty-four years ago. At that time, Arielle was left alone with her headstrong grandmother. She doesn't know who her father is, and her dark, curly hair and skin color are only a vague clue: Italian, Turkish, Croatian? While the girls are feverishly searched for in Katernberg, Ariel faces the painful questions to which she needs answers more and more urgently. Did her mother leave her, or did she not leave voluntarily? > dpa