The new travel diary of young Hanns-Josef Ortheil. In the early 1960s, Hanns-Josef Ortheil undertook a journey to divided post-war Berlin with his father. It is a trip back to the places where his father and mother lived as a young couple during World War II. Patiently and fascinated, he listens to his father recounting life back then. Instinctively, he understands the significance Berlin held for his small family and still holds for him. Day by day, the twelve-year-old boy notes and writes, eagerly searching for a connection to this world. In the summer of 1964, twelve-year-old Hanns-Josef Ortheil travels to Berlin with his father. Just a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall and a year after Kennedy's visit to Berlin, their stay in the city brings father and son into the present of the Cold War.