Jochen Boening

Brothers Jochen Boening

The idyllic Westerwald village of Hachenburg is the home of the four-member Kampmann family. Due to a serious illness, Heribert Kampmann, the father of the family, becomes addicted to alcohol and develops to be the tyrant of the family. When the situation seems hopeless and trying to avoid disaster, Hilde Kampmann emigrates with her sons to Canada. While Werner, 16, decides to become a priest, his younger brother follows in his father's footsteps. Having come into conflict with the law, he leaves home and takes off on a cargo ship that takes him to Africa. But even there, he quickly gets off on the wrong track. Only when he is involved in a senseless murder, he wakes up and decides to become a doctor to help the people he always hurt so far. Also the homesickness for his family, which meanwhile lives under a different name, becomes more and more unbearable. After years of searching, his dream of finding mother and brother again comes true. But then something incredible happens. The two brothers fall in love with the same woman. Will the doctor return to Africa or will the priest resist the temptation to continue to serve God and help his brother win the unequal race for happiness?