This documentary talks about a forest in the middle of Europe, far from the urban world and from civilisation, which is home to a peculiar community of the banished - it is a world for the stranded. A diffuse system that still has total control makes sure that this world doesn't show itself, that it doesn't pop up in our reality and become a disturbance. In Forst the banished proclaim their own truth and tell the story of their empowerment. They gradually recall their identity as political refugees and start to make plans for their escape...

Due to her Mongolian birthmark, the filmmaker Theresia Grösslinger embarks on a cinematic journey through Mongolia. However, the illusion of being closer to the country and its people because of her birthmark is destroyed right from the beginning. While taking part in a family's everyday life in the southern veldt, she soon has to admit to herself her disappointment at feeling completely lost in this vastness and that the family only regards her as a tourist.