In the 90-minute documentary, presenter Susan Sideropoulos goes on a journey through 1,700 years of German-Jewish history and thus also follows in the footsteps of her own ancestors. Always with an eye on the present, the film tells of Cologne in Roman times, of the medieval Shum cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz, of Frankfurt in the early modern period as well as of Leipzig, Hamburg and Berlin. The story is about dramatic upheavals and heydays, about the past and the present. The focus is not only on historical events and figures, but also on people today, such as a yeshiva student, an Orthodox rabbi and a liberal rabbi, a folk musician or a Jewish student.