THE WONDER OF THE WORLD – The Joy of Losing Your Bearings

In summer 2018, Michaela von Bargen sets out on a journey with her husband and their four children. Their plan: to spend 18 months driving from Alaska to Argentina along the Pan-American Highway in their self-converted truck. Four years later they are still overseas: no longer travelling, but making a life abroad. The family has had to hit the emergency brakes many times – engine failure in San Francisco, a spinal disc operation in Costa Rica, and finally a pandemic which forced them to shelve all further travel plans. But they have no intention of returning to Germany. They keep setting a course for new destinations, and the many highs and lows they experience force Michaela and her family to question themselves: how do we want to live in future? Which ways of life are possible? What does security mean to us? At every stage and in every lull they think about what is really important, what they can rely on and whether there is an opportunity for them in stillness.