Filmlokomotive

It is the Friday before a long weekend; the hours of an afternoon in an unbearable hot summer. Karl, the employee, is given one last job to complete.

A land surveyor lives in his own ordered world, until one day he allows himself to become aware of something which his measuring instruments do not enable him to comprehend further. Searching for a principle of order which will embrace his new experiences, he encounters new spheres of existence...

A man burns down a computer, trinkers around with dynamite and an alarm clock... and mails sinister letters. The man, however, is on a quest for love and understanding.

Five views of Viennese life: snow clearers, people in stone, the small shopkeeper, the telephonist, the radio announcer, the famel designer, the film maker, dance sessions and pork chops, masters of ceremony and DJ's. An episodic film about Vienna. Seven theses by Viennese philosopher Günther Anders on the increasing lack of feeling and awareness in the modern cycle of life, set against the contradictory nature and multiplicity of individual existence.