His Armenian parents called him "Raffi" when he was born in 1938 in Haifa – Palestine at that time. Meanwhile, his name is “Manuel” and he is a citizen of the small Bavarian town, Selbitz.

His daughter is uncovering the traces of his past:
Why in his passport is written “Alexandrette” as birth place? And why her father has not the same family name like his parents, sister and brother?
Why did her father go to Armenia, but never visited the grave of his parents in Lebanon?

HOMEPORT is a story about loss and achievements about changing identities, statelessness and about feeling home somewhere.
It is the story of the ethnical Armenian, Manuel, who has kept parts of his life in secret for more than fifty years.
After Manuel’s father and grandmother had escaped the 1915 Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, they found a new home in Palestine.
Around 1948, when the Palestinian-­‐Israeli conflict escalated, the family fled to Beirut/Lebanon. They became people second class and until they died, the parents had the status of Palestine refugees until their death.
In the early 1960s Manuel immigrated to Germany by help of an illegal Lebanese passport. There he became a certificated welder. In fact, it was only meant to be a short stop on his way to Alaska. But everything turned out differently than planned.
Manuel’s life several times has changed by personal twists of fate and it has molded to the movements of history: the Palestinian-­‐Israeli conflict took his life on unexpected directions.
Together, father, mother and daughter will search for the father’s lost identity and travel to places from his past and to Armenia, the country, which is a kind of “dream” homeland for so many Diaspora Armenians, who never even have lived there.
Manuel once had the dream of buying a house in Armenia and spends his life as a pensioner there. But his wife was against it. Since this year she is also a pensioner. So, maybe Manuel could convince her now to live there? Or at least give it a try and spend some time there learning how live feels “at home in Armenia” ?
You cannot shift an old tree easily. But could Armenia be a home for Manuel himself? How much of the Armenian is still in him or will the locals take him for a German?
What kind of expectations did Manuel have toward the country of his ancestors before he traveled there? What can this place give to both him and all Armenians, which other countries will never be able to? Are there any traces left in the lost country behind the Ararat?
The various historic facts, which are combined in this story, will provide the framework of the background. The focus of the narrative is the exceptional life story of a likeable character, with an individual view on the global political events trying to understand his Armenian identity.​