Slumming

Sebastian is from a family of rich idlers whose wealth gives them a sense of superiority. In the evenings he often hangs out in cheap bars in Vienna looking for “oddballs” in whose lives he can interfere just for a gag. The companion he needs for these escapades is Alex, a student whom he lets live with him in return for admiration. The two men pull off a particularly fine trick. The victim is Kallman, a vagrant who tries to sell his poems in the street and has drunk himself into a stupor. They bundle him into a car, drive him over the frontier and dump him in the freezing cold on a bench opposite the station in Znojmo in the Czech Republic, without money or a passport. Sebastians’s friend Pia has a completely different view of this piece of “fun”. Now it is she who turns the tables on Sebastian and Kallman.