On 8. September 1948 a passenger ship arrives in Cape Town, South Africa, where the apartheid era has begun. Its passengers include 83 children from orphanages in Schleswig-Holstein, many of them from Lübeck. These two to 14-year-old boys and girls are part of the largest mass adoption in the history of Germany. The criterium for their selection is “race”. Their “Arian blood” is supposed to help the Boer minority in South Africa “create a white nation in a black country”. The “Dietse Kinderfonds” motto for this campaign, as sanctioned by state and church, is: “Isolate the children, separate the siblings from one another and cut them off from their past.” The children include Werner Schellack and Peter Ammermann, who are two and eight years old upon their arrival in South Africa. In the film they speak about their fate, which mirrors South African history in an unusual manner.