Where do we come from? What has shaped us? And how did the diversity of our origins, languages, and cultures give rise to what we today perceive as “German” and experience as “Germany”? As narrator and time traveler, Matthias Brandt guides us through a past that is much closer to us than we often realize. The first five episodes of this ambitious multi-part series span from the Ice Age to the Late Middle Ages. They tell the stories of the people who lived here over the millennia—their challenges and struggles, their achievements and accomplishments.