Escaping from the Nazis to Kenya in 1938, German Jew Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) goes from high-flying lawyer to jobbing farm caretaker. He then ships his family over, introducing wife Jettel (Juliane Köhler) and daughter Regina (Karoline Eckertz) to life among the German émigrés and native Africans. It's a difficult adjustment. Jettel brings crockery, ball gowns and prejudice towards the "dirty" natives, while Regina discovers a new sense of freedom in the sprawling savannah.
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