Flourishing landscapes, flexible people, moving targets.

An area made desolate by recession.

A place far from the stimulating flows of information and capital. Almost an island, but not of the blessed. The old order has collapsed, a new one has yet to take hold. Two young people are ‘motivated’: Erich and Kathrin take the initiative. An old pigsty becomes a hotel. Now guests can come and turn the wasteland into a flourishing landscape. No provision is made for failure in their plan. Their hopes are pinned on the stimulating forces of the market. But they fail to recognise that the personal and moral targets they are pursuing with their hotel project are not listed on the stock exchange. No one is spared the obligation to make a profit.

When a guest finally strays into the wasteland as an ‘emissary of the economy’, their apparent saviour leads them to ruin. The ‘flourishing landscapes’ are lacking any social armour. The idyll has become a battlefield.