After many years, journalist and writer Nuri returns to the provincial town where he was born and grew up. His aim is to sell a garden he inherited from his father and return to Istanbul. In the city, he meets his old friend Sabri. He is an ordinary civil servant who has been working in a government office for years. Sabri greets the author somewhat coldly and hesitantly.

Untold stories of a generation that has long been a part of Germany and has helped to write German history. A portrait from six perspectives about the first years in a new homeland, about loneliness, hopes, dreams and fears. Çağdaş wanted his grandfather – and was to get to know an entire generation.

In Gleis 11, director Çağdaş Eren Yüksel takes us on a search for his grandfather and a journey through the Republic – and through time.