Sonja Pikart - Stark

What's it about?

There are so many peaks in this country - and we're not just talking about mountains here: the world's highest rocking chair, the largest walk-in wine bottle in Southern Styria, the fastest summer toboggan run this side of the Danube. Superlatives wherever you look - and they all want to be climbed, ascended, mastered, conquered. In a world that divides everything and everyone into winners and losers, every small town must have the biggest something and every person must surpass themselves. But if strength is merely an end in itself, isn't every peak simultaneously a low point? Sonja Pikart observes how "strong" men devour the planet in their hunger for power. How high-performers train their hearts in the gym - not to love better, but to run away faster. In doing so, she discovers poetry in times of weakness. Surrounded by an army of nuclear families who believe they have won the game of life, she finds romance in friendships. And when someone shouts at her in the weakest moment of her life: "You are so strong!", she crafts an action figure of herself and realizes: now is the time to feel immortal! A program about heroes and those who never were.