Sidonie

One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus of all subsequent discussions.

Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakthroughs that make little hope for new times.

In 1939 the Tschurtschenthaler family chooses the Third Reich and they resettle in Bohemia, where they get a new, large farm. Hermann is sent to war, Paula flees with her children. Meeting in South Tyrol, they have to start all over again.