When Johnny Pichler turns his back on the safety of the West and ventures into the far reaches of Eastern Europe, he is following the summons of love. His route takes him to Slovakia and then on to Ukraine - and finally to Odessa, the mystic Black Sea port city.
On the run, the stoical money courier flees to Slovakia with Shirley. Yet before he gets the chance to make even a fleeting acquaintance, the enigmatic blonde vanishes. Setting off in search of her, Johnny instead encounters her twin sister Jana. When Johnny meets Ignaz, a part-time criminal from East Germany, the two embark on a journey to find the answers hay drift along the shores of the Black Sea.
Andrea Maria Dusl’s debut feature film is a modern-day tale of love between East and West; of the quenching of longing and the discovery of a continent, a road movie set in countries that, although just next door, for decades concealed their idiosyncrasies and their whimsicality behind the Iron Curtain.