Matias is a Portuguese teenager growing up in Lisbon with no connection to the German nationality of his father In the summer of his 16th birthday Matias finds the memories of his grandfather Gerald in the form of an old photo album titled Jugend Youth In one of the most striking photos Gerald then also 16 wears a Nazi uniform and looks disturbingly like Matias Over the 80 years that separate them a bridge emerges triggering a long journey across Europe itself haunted by the amnesiac resurgence of nationalism echoing the too recent history of the old continent