Funny, entertaining, touching. Leonid Kapitelman spent the first part of his life in Kyiv, the second on a rickety office chair in a Russian specialty shop in Leipzig, but in his nearly sixty years, he has never truly felt at home anywhere. Until his son wants to know where his often grumpy, yet at times embracing the whole world, father really belongs. Together, they embark on a journey to an unknown homeland. 'The Smile of My Invisible Father' is a wistful and humorous walk through a minefield of paradoxes - a book about belonging and freedom, about Germany and Israel.