Four brothers on a journey back to the past, that begins after the death of the fifth brother, in a personal film about mourning and parting. Bruder Jakob, schläfst du noch? is a very considerate, personal film about both farewell and reunion. The scattered archival footage, showing the brothers as children and teens – on mountain tops in summer, swimming together, wildly dancing and playing – impart an unforeseen levity. The search starts in the Tyrolean valley Lareintal and eventually ends in a hotel room in Porto, with the realisation that this is not particularly a film about sadness but the necessity of grief. And about finding those who accompany us in life.