Nicole Scherg

A film about people who make a difference. They are committed to a lively political culture, to sustainable solutions in food and construction, to clarity in thinking about the economy, and to social justice.

Midwives usually attend more than a thousand births in their lifetime, be it in hospitals, at birth centers, or in homes. The personal stories of midwives from Ethiopia to Brazil, Austria to Nepal, and Morocco become a mirror that reflects the political and economic situation of women, their status, and demands in society, from the perspective of these wise women who are the first to see us in this world.

The film observes the implementation of an idea by a special company, the Waldviertler shoe factory, in one of Austria's most precarious regions, the northern Waldviertel. How can the visions of a just world that drive company owner Heinrich Staudinger be realized in the economic developments of the present?