Thomas Koch

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever.

Police officers Schraube and Wattner lead a relaxed life in a quiet provincial town. There is no work waiting for them here, they can just relax all day. This changes abruptly when Mayor Billing wants to bring tourism to the village. The forest lake, of all places, where the policemen relax every day, is to become the center of a flourishing bathing establishment. If the two policemen don't want to lose their idyll, they have to take action. A blowpipe with poison darts is to help them thwart the mayor's plans.

The unemployed salesman Wolfgang practices optimism, his friend Günther realism: The situation is shitty! But then zookeeper Günther finds a few hundred thousand Euros from his demented neighbor. The mates take the money but also the care for the old man.

In the face of increasing digitalization, in which robots and artificial intelligence are playing an ever more important role, will there still be enough jobs for everyone? The documentary takes a look at the work of the future and how the profound transformation of the world of work will affect people, society and the education system.