Azad, a young Kurd, receives money to go and join his elder brother Mehmet who is living in Germany, where he earns his living as a pimp.
Aiming to find work and build a house for his family, Azid reluctantly leaves them, his roots, his land. He arrives at a centre for refugees where he meets an eleven year old orphan, Ibo, who is also a Kurd. A solid and affectionate friendship soon develops between them. Unable to get by on what he receives from social security, Azad starts doing hair-cuts for «his brothers» in the restroom of a fast-food joint, with little Ibo holding the mirror. One evening, in the underground, they come across two unpleasant young Turks who are terrorising passers-by with their highly aggressive pitbull. As they come out of the station, Azad provokes them, a gesture whose consequences are to turn his life into a nightmare.
A few days later, after a row in the street with his elder brother about the latter’s unacceptable job, he is recognised by one of the Turks who sets the dog to attack them. Mehmet stabs the animal’s owner, thus unleashing a spiral of vengeance, violence and retribution. Fratricide is an uncompromsing illustration of the extremely swift transition from innocence to corruption, and pulls no punches in its depiction of the difficult situation of asylum seekers, who encounter indifference in the host country.
All this amplifies the tensions and conflicts that already exist between individuals, thus forcing them to survive on their own resources. Emigration to a better world, to a more «fertile» land is presented in the film as a renuniciation of one’s origins and traditions. Money, the main reason for leaving, freezes those uprooted into an emotional void. Eaten away by nostalgia, the characters navigate between past and present, snatching at any familiar element in this «elsewhere».