NDR / nordmedia, 2012, 45 minutes
Home has a very special meaning for the almost 800 inhabitants of the North Sea island of Spiekeroog. They live in a village in the middle of the sea – completely dependent on the rise and fall of the tide and always in perfect harmony with nature. Christian Kiesow has developed a love-hate relationship to water. His grandfather was the last fisherman on the island and his father drowned at sea. Together with his wife, Christian Kiesow runs a restaurant on the island. Things change once the tourist season starts, and not just for Christian Kiesow and his wife: Lars Bücking’s existence is altered dramatically on the 1st of Mai too, for this is the day on which the camping ground on the most westerly side of the island opens its gates, where Lars has his eccentric kiosk: ‘This is my home – this is my life’. Willi Jacobs loves his home more than anything. The captain of the ‘Gorch Fock’ is out in is cutter every day, bringing the tourists closer to the beauty of the tidal flats, just as his father and grandfather before him. The oldest inhabitant of Spiekeroog is Mariechen Damm. She is still sprightly at the ripe old age of 101 and even bakes her own birthday cake. She receives her best birthday present from the mayor: A trip in to the island’s easterly beach that she hasn’t visited since her youth – in a fire brigade jeep.