The forest village of Siehdichum is the last station of the Reich Labor Service unit 3/401 XL Warthegau East. These are sixteen-year-olds who were hastily conscripted and were overwhelmed by the Russian assault on January 26, 1945, and according to authentic reports, were "completely ground down." The place name Siehdichum is understood by 75-year-old Martha Lenders, sister of one of these boys who disappeared without a trace, as a call to look back at the end of her life, as if from the summit of a mountain, and to question the roles that life has assigned to her as a woman and mother. In the year 2000, she is on a quest for traces in Poland, where houses, streets, and way of life astonishingly resemble her Saxon home, as she experienced it with her brother. A history professor from Warsaw and a filmmaker from Poznań become her helpers. She lets her return flight to Germany lapse and roams around.