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In the film, former residents remember the fate and decay of their homeland in the former German eastern provinces and settlement areas. In their stories, the history of the forgotten places comes to life again. The search for clues begins with the well-known Berlin composer Siegfried Matthus in what is now Russian northern East Prussia (Königsberg area/Kaliningrad Oblast). In the Czech border region with Bavaria, Adolf Schmid, Rosa Dobner and Wolf-Dieter Hamperl tell of the Bohemian towns of the Tachau district, now Tachov, which were German-populated until the expulsion in 1945/46 and have now disappeared. In Lubowitz/Łubowice in Upper Silesia, the ruins of the castle where the most important German Romantic poet, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, was born, are being saved from oblivion by Blasius Hanczuch and Paul Ryborz. And Horst Hermann, born in Küstrin, leads us together with Julia Bork from the Polish Museum of the Küstrin Fortress through the sunken paths and remains of the walls of the old town in today's Kostrzyń.