瑞士重要導演亞倫·泰納的最新作品，故事發生於戲劇學校，主角是該校的十七名學生演員，一位老師突然失蹤，在他離開前，留給學生一些卡片，上面寫著要達成的任務；其中一項是從一個劇本取得靈感寫出劇本。學生決定將背景設於華盛頓，他們的任務是將過去和現在作家的作品流傳下去。

Two Swiss girls around twenty, one a history student and the other a store clerk, meet while hitch-hiking. Out of a whim and with nothing better to do, they decide to go on hitch-hiking together around Switzerland as long as they feel like it. After a couple of days, their money is spent in restaurants and cheap hotels, so they continue their tour by sleeping in cattle sheds and asking for money and accommodation from people. An unexpected discovery, a gun found in a car's glove compartment, gradually turns their methods somewhat more dramatic.