The film depicts a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a Rwandan woman, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.

Orchestra rehearsals with Teodor Currentzis. The House of the Radio of the GDR in Berlin. A young couple in love. The artistic process viewed from the outside – and from the inside. Mahler’s boundary-breaking Third Symphony. What triggered the composition 130 years ago, and what does it trigger in us today?

Over 10,000 years ago, humans settled down. Is there still something like a nomadic gene in us? After numerous expeditions to parts of the world far from Europe, this question arises for the artist group Mangan25. Among other places, they followed in the footsteps of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Australia and North America. Their encounters with indigenous peoples in these regions also reveal traumatic events and colonial upheavals.