“…Verzio FF submission The documentary voyages along the Baltic coast to the Soviet Union on the GDR maiden cruise ship the "MS Völkerfreundschaft" (MS International Friendship). …”

“…In the Polish town of Piatek, someone swears that the center has somehow disappeared, while in Lithuania's "Europos Centro" near Vilnius, one family sees Europe as a "monster" and the downfall of the Soviet Union as their worst misfortune. In the Western Ukrainian town of Rachiv we run into the last remaining Hasid who is buying the newspaper "Center of Europe." …”

“…After the Second World War, Stalin deported the German population and the area was settled by people from all over the Soviet Union. Director Volker Koepp tells the stories of children from the third generation of these new residents. …”

“…That this journey takes the film crew as far East as Ukraine should speak volumes of not only the uncertain legacy left by the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but the even more uncertain one beginning in the era of the European Union.…”