Struggle

The idea for the film came when I heard about strawberry pickers who came to Austria from Eastern-Europe to work in the strawberry fields for a period of six weeks, living in containers, earning 25 cents per kilogram. I was interested in giving a detailed, precise and authentic description of the nature of the work - faces, hands, process, spaces and duration. Formally we tried to achieve a decidedly non-sentimental, matter-of-fact approach to visualisation. The story takes place close to a border between wealth and poverty, between to socio-economic systems in a globalised world. I was interested in the subject struggle in general: struggle to earn a living, struggle for existence, struggle at all social levels, regardless of whether someone is wealthy or poor, regardless of whether someone comes from Eastern or Western Europe.