This film was originally intended to document the preliminary work of author Franzobel, who is researching a legendary brewery town for the THEATER-HAUSRUCK play “Zipf oder Die dunkle Seite des Mondes”. More and more, however, the film became an attempt to shed light on a nebulous story about doomsayers, kerosene brewers and Bernhard’s flowers.

The film is a documentation of the years 1943 to 2008, a portrayal of Zipf’s dark history and how it was dealt with. In the style of a road movie, a cinematic bracket is created to summarize and document the respective spirit of the time, the collective memory that adapts to each present, as well as the prevailing political current in the region.

Video clip-like sequences, private recordings and acting interludes, enriched with never-before-seen photos, documents, film and audio recordings form this film, which as a sample reaches a length of 9o minutes. Based on the range of historical interpretations by the state, political parties, contemporary witnesses, historical and media reports, an attempt is made to draw a picture that allows a reconstruction of domestic historical awareness through a prime example. 62 years after the end of the Second World War, in 2007, the protagonists of this film embark on a journey through the remembrance landscape of the Upper Austrian Hausruckviertel: through the lowlands of the region, past the trials and tribulations of past decades, to a “focal point of contemporary politics of remembrance”, to Zipf.