From Going and Arriving. Where does one go when standing in nowhere: between two countries, between close memories and distant present, between a constantly talking father and a silent mother? The girl is six when she leaves the GDR and begins a new life with her family in the far west of Germany. Are the promises her parents hoped for waiting there? Can the father reinvent himself, will the mother overcome her illness, brought from GDR prisons? The child longs for her grandmother in distant Leipzig and learns how the people of Aachen speak: a floating between worlds that does not come to an end even when the wall falls in 1989. Constanze Neumann tells of a life in between and how one can both find and lose oneself in the search for home.