The unemployed academic Kurt and his partner Trudi, a student teacher, can’t afford to take a trip this summer, and Trudi has to prepare for her teaching exam anyway. In the meantime, Kurt spends most of his time at the local bar with his best friend Feuerstein, an inhibited poet. One night, after countless glasses of Côtes du Rhône, Feuerstein convinces him to simply use literature to write his way to the vacation he yearns for. And so Kurt sits down at his typewriter and sets off with Trudi towards Marseille in the VW-minibus…
