Bluesman

Toscho Todorovic is a Blues singer-songwriter and guitar player from Osnabrück, Germany. In this film the 70-year-old looks back on his life. Originally of Balkan immigrant descent he grew up in a conservative family. After high school his father persuades him to do an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank. There he grows increasingly unhappy with his career. He falls into a bad habits of overeating drinking too much.
After hearing a Blues record for the first time, he falls in love with the genre. A friend tells him about studying music at a conservatory. He quits his job at the bank and studies music without telling his parents. Opening up to them scares him too much, which leads to him living two lives: The one at home, where he makes up lies about what he has done all day at the bank and his real life at the music conservatory. After a year he can´t take it anymore and opens up to his father with the truth.