After arriving in Berlin, Kerim (22) starts an asylum seeking process with the help of uncle Tarek. Kerim tells the officer, in a very convincing way, that he has been kidnapped and imprisoned by a Jihadist Group back home in Iraq, but the officer does not believe him at all.
Later, Kerim finds his first friends in Germany among a group of second-generation young hip- hoppers. After a while, they want to know more about his time in Iraq. Lonely and flattered by their interest, Kerim tells them that he was not only kidnapped, but had stayed with the group for almost a year, before he fled. Especially Amir, one of the young guys, wants to know more about this.
Kerim is torn between his new friends’ admiration and the authority that mistrusts him; he does not want to talk about his past where religion and violence play a role, but he has to do it; he wants to get the asylum permit but at the same time gets depressed about the West. He finds a girl but he has the feeling she is cheating on him.
Kerim is lost, until Amir disappears into an Islamist group and he has the feeling he has to act to get him out.