At the end of 1979, two men arrived at Minneapolis airport who looked very similar: the same stature, the same faces, the same voices. They were also dressed very similarly, wore moustaches and almost identical glasses. They had only met once before – in Germany in 1954.

Oskar and Jack are identical twins – with very different life stories. They were born in Trinidad in 1933; their German mother and Romanian-Jewish father met on an emigrant ship at the end of the 1920s. Shortly after the twins were born, their parents separated.

Oskar’s mother took him to the Sudetenland to live with his grandmother, who raised him as a strict Catholic and in the spirit of National Socialism. He became an enthusiastic Hitler Youth. Jack stayed with his father in the Caribbean, where he grew up according to Jewish tradition. At the age of 16, he went to Israel to help build the Jewish state. On his honeymoon in 1954, he stopped off in Germany to meet his mother and twin brother. The visit was not very pleasant – the brothers were enemies. Contact was broken off immediately. Jack settled down as a businessman in California, Oskar went to work as a miner in the Ruhr area.
It was not until 25 years later that a spectacular American twin research project brought Oskar and Jack together again. In the film, both tell their story for the first time.

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