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Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself, and the oft strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. And they are multiferious: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. All linked by the great current against which they swim. The film tells their stories and their longings - tranquil images by an unobtrusive camera tell of the innumerable people who have drowned and lie buried in the „Cemetery of the Nameless“ in Albern and similarly of the Rumanian shipper and his wife who have been sitting on their tug in Vienna for over a year because the blockade of the river in former Yugoslavia prevents them from going home.
