The plot: Vera (Iris Berben) is headstrong and only maintains something like a relationship with her immediate neighbor Hinni (Peter Kurth). Her home is the farm where she was stranded as a war refugee with her mother and which she has never left again. True to the motto “My home is my castle”, she defends not only the farm and the land, but also her idiosyncrasies and her reluctance to change.

Vera is more than skeptical when the city dweller and daughter of her half-sister Marlene (Nina Kunzendorf) shows up with her four-year-old son Leon. But Vera recognizes Anne’s (Svenja Liesau) needs – not belonging anywhere, not having arrived, looking for a home and wanting to put down roots. These two women have much more in common than they realize at the time. Because it is precisely in this constellation that old wounds and the family trauma of “having lost everything” can heal.

“Altes Land” is a production of UFA FICTION (Producer: Benjamin Benedict, Executive Producer: Matthias Adler, Producer: Sinah Swyter) for ZDF. The ZDF editors are Rita Nasser and Alexander Bickel. Filming will continue until mid-June 2019. Broadcast dates on ZDF have not yet been set.