I come from a small town in West Germany. Where I grew up, people stay in the same place they were born and raised; around their mid-twenties, they meet someone, get married and have kids. If you ask them what home is, they will answer to you, it is the family, the house, the city they come from. But then home is something else for other people—those who do not feel meaningfully connected to the place they were born. In considering what “home” means for myself, what a liberating place is, where I can reinvent myself and become the onewho I have always wanted to be, I came to the profound consideration of what “home” may be for others. In SAUDADE, I portrayed different people from different backgrounds —there were those who left their land by choice and those fled by force. I asked them to write down what their sense of belonging is.