PRODUCED BY KOMPLIZEN FILM IN CO-PRODUKTION WITH ÖFILM (BERLIN), WHY NOT PRODUCTIONS (PARIS), IDTV FILM (AMSTERDAM), ZDF/DAS KLEINE FERNSEHSPIEL IN COLLABORATION WITH ARTE SPONSORED BY FFA, BKM, DFFF, MEDIENBOARD, FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG-SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN, HESSEN FILM FUND, THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND, CNC AND MEDIA. 2011 | 35mm | 1:1.85 | 5.1. | 91 min

"No; I am Kim, this is the great world and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?" He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignifant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

Kim, R. Kipling

Ebbo and Vera Velten have been living in Africa for a long time. Ebbo is managing a sleeping sickness program. His work is fulfilling. In contrast, Vera feels increasingly uncomfortable with her life in the expat community of Yaoundé and the separation from her daughter Helen, 14, who is attending boarding school in Germany.

Ebbo Velten has to give up his life in Africa or he loses the woman he loves. But he has become a stranger to Europe. His fear of returning increases from day to day.

Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. He hasn’t been to Africa for a long time. But instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man: like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.