As deputy editor-in-chief of the small local newspaper "Grevenbroicher Tagblatt", Horst Schlämmer knows one thing well: lousy news. And how can a look at the news in view of the world situation and the one right on your own doorstep not rush your mood into the basement? The bad mood cannot even be drowned in alcohol, because the pubs are also dying left and right non-stop. How are you supposed to get out of this hole again, maybe even become happy again? This not necessarily small question is also asked by Horst Schlämmer. And he is willing to find answers. So he sets off on a journey across Germany - from south to north, by car, by ship or by ship. It doesn't always seem as if his mission could end really well. But Schlämmer doesn't let up...