THIS MAKES ME WANT TO PREDICT THE PAST portrays a group of migrant youths at Munich's Olympia shopping mall in their everyday explorations, while they talk about their hopes and dreams, but also their fears and nightmares. During a racist attack in 2016, nine young people with a migration background were murdered in the shopping centre, five others were hit and many people were seriously injured. In addition to the mundane, the young people Aleyna Osmanoglu and Sosuna Yildiz use archive photographs to recreate scenes from the play Düşler Ülkesi (1982) in the shopping centre. The premiere of the play was overshadowed by a bomb threat against the theatre. The contradiction in this film's title of wanting to predict the past is a reference to the continuous and intersectional experience of racism that connects the youth of the 1980s with those of today.