Filmmaker Christoph Schwarz is broke. Fortunately, he gets an offer from an Austrian TV documentary series: “Striking Years". But does Schwarz really want to start a self-experiment as an environmental activist? Wouldn’t it be better to turn the project into a critique of capitalism, to live one year without money and secretly buy a desired weekend house with the film budget?

Schwarz discovers self-sufficient lifestyles, rescues food from bins, grows potatoes on roundabouts and protests against the dominance of cars in our cities with a yellow convertible upcycled into a herb garden. He organises bicycle demonstrations, hikes through the Austrian hills without money and blocks the construction of a motorway with activists from #LobauBleibt. The problem of having earned money while supposedly living without it for a year, however, is not so easy to get rid of. (Production Note)