Spaziergang nach Syrakus

A seven month journey on foot through Italy from the SwissItalian border down to Sicily with a rucksack containing a camera a tape recorder and the travellers tale A Walk to Syracuse in 1802 by the German author Johann Gottfried Seume A cinematic essay on travelling the south and Arcadian longings on everyday life in Italy in the year of the soccer world cup and the death of Alberto Moravia on Italian rain and nights in Rome on the landscapes of childhood and on the fact that strangers are the only exotic in Italy