Schicht (Shift) is both a reckoning and a search for traces of the past. Alex Gerbaulet embarks on a trip through the industrial city of Salzgitter, West Germany: mining, steel factory, model city. The film unfolds the portrait of the filmmaker's family, brought to life by records from private archives. Her father Rudolf completes his apprenticeship at the Reichswerke Hermann Göring, works in the mine and at the Volkswagen plant. His wife Doris suffers from multiple sclerosis. They name their younger daughter after a singer: Alexandra. As a rebellious punk she takes a different path. Pulsating, sometimes breathless, Schicht follows the exposed (hi)stories. Everything is subjected to the filmmaker's interpretation. A film between analysis and imagination, between the noise of the highway and the silence of abandoned mines, like Schacht Konrad, in which from 2020 nuclear waste will be dumped.