Alias

Summary

"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first
stone" – an Apostle of the New Apostolic Church lays a
young married couple′s conflict to rest with this quotation
from the Bible. Afterwards, nothing is ever said about the
woman′s adultery. And so a young boy grows up in a
deceptive idyll together with his family and his brothers
and sisters in faith, firmly anchored in the ideologies of a
petit-bourgeois, religious environment. He never really
registers the fact that his appearance is unusual for a
German. In his early twenties, he argues fiercely with his
father, who reveals the supposed truth of his son′s origins
in a rage.
The family emerges as a structure of hypocrisy, its members
as silent guardians of shared knowledge – not only
that of his identity. Roaming his childhood haunts in
Castrop-Rauxel, a small industrial town, and on subsequent
travels to Lebanon he encounters strange familiars,
and finally a familiar stranger.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH