Second Hands

Project Summary

Georgian siblings KETO (35) and DATO (33), migrant workers in Germany, make a living by cleaning the homes of the recently deceased. They collect belongings the families no longer want, such as furniture, clothing, bed linens, a tea sets, a tableware and ship them to Tbilisi, where their parents MANANA (71) and MERABI (72) run a small Secondhand Shop built from the remnants of the dead.

Siblings are driven by a lifelong search for something that would make sense of their wandering life. They search for a magical object a relic perhaps, or a piece of the past that could repair their existence. It could be anything found in one of the houses they clear. Something that is not just an object but a sign that their life still have meaning. This search follows them all the time, motivates their actions. Every new household is a new chance they get.