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Titus is a German psychiatrist who lives and works in Marseille. In the year 2000 after many years of voluntary exile he starts a journey to his native city of Tubingen in Germany and the area where he lived as a youth. After the first few contacts with his family and some old friends, the journey is changed quickly into a sort of discovery of the historic truth but also into a personal - existential journey towards self-knowledge.

From a starting point what himself named ‘German madness’ ... he wanders in modern day Germany seeking the memorial places where the most horrific crimes took place during the Nazi period and the Second World War looking for answers.

The film “Return to Homeland” is not a portrait of Titus Milech.  Simultaneously, with his journey in the historic time, Titus is attempting a internal journey trying to understand the collective unconscious of the Germans in relation with the Holocaust and the rest of the crimes (spread out throughout Europe) which were carried out by the Nazi Germany and to heal his personal traumas which start from the attitude of his own family towards those crimes and the way they were addressed.