Stella da Falla

Elima, as the main character is called at the beginning of the Middle Ages, grows up like Parzival in the forest with his mother. His father picks him up when he is 18 years old and puts him in a balloon. After encounters with medieval farmers and woodworkers, as an apprentice with a coppersmith and after a long stay with a hermit (in the Solothurn hermitage with brother Nicholas, played by himself) he gradually enters the 20th century. He makes his first professional experience as a contemporary as a butcher's assistant in Duisburg. This was followed by an outbreak in Italian regions (Sardinia and Naples). Even a love affair with the film starlet Marina remains unsatisfactory and a renewed escape from the realm of the famous and bored follows. He gets to know the medium of film and begins to film himself, then the hippies appear with their alternative ways of life, which introduce him to the drug experience and which he in turn leaves, driven by a radical search for truth and self. But first of all there is the re-encounter with both the motherly natural world and the fatherly cultural world, this time with full consciousness.

When he has become free of both his mother's and father's forces, he tries to gain a foothold again in little Switzerland after stays in Amsterdam and Paris. In Ireland he has previously given himself his real name "Stella da Falla". A sleepy Fribourg gives him the cold shoulder and the beginning of a "proper biography" is impossible. In an exstatic final dance his longing for peace and harmony burns away along with the film.