FATHERLAND centers on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip taking them across a Germany in ruins - from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning after sixteen years of exile in the US, he has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.