Franz Xaver Gernstl

The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.

Since 1983, author and director Franz X. Gernstl has been traveling across Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland in a VW bus. Together with his friends, cameraman Hans Peter Fischer and sound engineer Stefan Ravasz, Gernstl is always on the lookout for people who know how to live the right way.

Three friends, one bus, hundreds of stories: Franz Gernstl and his companions HP Fischer and Stefan Ravasz have been traveling the world since 1983, always in search of - well, what is it?

Achim, a east German debt collector fights against his class enemy from the time in the late eighties, when he was still a little boy in school. Back then, the two have always been in a competition to receive some recognition from their school mates