Verrückt nach Paris

Crazy About Paris

Hilde, Philip and Karl all live in a home for disabled people in Bremen. Hilde helps out in the kitchen, while Philip and Karl make children′s toys in a supervised workshop. Enno, their supervisor, goes about his job cooly, keeping an ironic distance between himself and the proceeding.

Philip, who is a thalidomide victim, becomes embroiled in a nasty argument with his girlfriend, Vanessa. In the meantime, Enno manages to spoil Karl′s chances of getting a job outside the supervised workshop. One day, Hilde, Philip and Karl decide to peel off on their own. Equipped with a little luggage, Hilde′s savings and a bundle of toy ducks, they get on a train bound for Cologne. Their very own little excursion!
When they arrive in Cologne they start selling their wooden ducks in front of the cathedral, which gets them in trouble with a gang of youths. A charitable organisation at the railway station takes the trio in and informs the home of their whereabouts. But the runaways manage to slip away unnoticed yet again. They miss their train back to Bremen - but this only makes them all the more determined to embark on a proper journey. By now, Enno is on his way to Cologne to retrieve the truants. With the help of the police, he starts searching for them everywhere - in vain. Meanwhile, Hilde has booked couchette tickets for them all ont he night train to Paris. Enno misses the runaway by a hair′s breadth; he leaps into a taxi and drives off after the train, but doesn′t manage to catch up with them until the train stops at Liège. He finally discovers the trio on the train - but it won′t stop again now until it reaches Paris…

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH