Matthias works very successfully in a Berlin advertising agency and enjoys his luxurious single life. When his mother, a dropout and convinced communist, suddenly dies, he has to face his past. With the order to scatter her ashes in Cuba, she sends Matthias on a journey into his past. Matthias finds family he wants nothing to do with. He encounters love he knows nothing to do with and loses a friend he can’t save. When he manages to accept his roots and admits to himself that he is not the unscrupulous, self-satisfied cynic his colleagues know him to be, – that he has other values, still, – only then does he understand what he has been missing. He no longer had a home and must build a new one. Cuba stands for the lost dream that actually everyone dreams. Community, equality and humanity. And for the reality, – which does not know all this.