A walking documentary on the body, belonging, and the search for home

Our body is the starting point of our life -- It exists long before we know about ourselves. We are shaped by our surroundings and shape all that is in relation to us, growing into a deeply entangled embrace with the world. We cannot be anywhere else than in our bodies. The beginning was movement. With each step, the body quietly opens and closes landscapes, unfolding what we call our life.

As humanity fell into dreaming of control, perfection, and endless growth, the body became something to manage, optimize, or overcome. Its inherent vulnerability - being the source of our aliveness – suddenly became the obstacle.
Pushing past the ground that holds us, we risk losing the deep embrace between the body and the world in which we are home.

In a time of speed and disconnection, we take one step at a time. We walk following a long-distance path from Germany towards Lisbon, carrying only a camera, a black cloth, and a question. With the void between each step, we soften and open to the senses to the place where all experience is born, using each step as an inquiry into how we inhabit our bodies. Along the way, we meet people from all walks of life, asking how they relate to their body, what has shaped it, and how they search for home. This journey gathers words, gazes, gestures, symbols, and movements - not just of where we belong, but how we belong: somatically, emotionally, spiritually.

This film is a gentle yet firm reminder: the body is not just the vehicle through life, but the very source of life itself. Our experience of depth, meaning, and connection to the world reaching only as far as our inner relationship with the body, the very ground that gives us a world at all.