Frido and his daughter Lisa live in one of the West German villages affected by the relocation efforts due to coal mining expansion in the region. The last family living in the deserted village, they will have to move soon. However, Frido is living in complete denial, clinging on to his home and the way life used to be for him there. Instead of planning the inevitable move, he redoes his front yard and puts a fresh coat of paint on his house that is inevitably to fall victim to the huge excavators slowly but surely approaching it. For Frido this is more than simply moving; this for him is losing the place where he grew up and happily spent most of his life together with his recently deceased wife. This is a journey of learning to let go and accepting the inevitable changes in life.
Just like Lützerath, Erkelenz and Hambach, the village in this film has to make way for open-cast mining. But one man refuses to leave.
Frido and his daughter Lisa live in one of the West German villages affected by the relocation efforts due to coal mining expansion in the region.
The last family living in the deserted village, they will have to move soon. However, Frido is living in complete denial, clinging on to his home and the way life used to be for him there. Instead of planning the inevitable move, he redoes his front yard and puts a fresh coat of paint on his house that is inevitably to fall victim to the huge excavators slowly but surely approaching it.
For Frido this is more than simply moving; this for him is losing the place where he grew up and happily spent most of his life together with his recently deceased wife. This is a journey of learning to let go and accepting the inevitable changes in life.