An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables and produces no pollution, but he runs into one madcap situation after another to find a buyer and financier for mass production.
Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.
Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey.
Symboles d’une époque révolue, les voitures sorties des usines d’État du bloc de l’Est sont aujourd’hui très prisées des collectionneurs.
Frantisek Louka, ancien violoncelliste de l'Orchestre philharmonique de Prague, privé de son travail par la bureaucratie communiste, en est reduit à jouer pour les enterrements au crématorium de la ville. Criblé de dettes, il accepte de faire un mariage blanc avec une Russe qui a besoin de papiers tchèques. Au lendemain des noces, sa jeune épouse émigre en Allemagne en laissant derrière elle son fils, Kolya.
Two older German men are headed for Southern Norway in their Trabant in 1990. They're going back to "old haunts", to a beach they left in the days of May 1945. They have one goal for the trip, to find something they once dug down.
