Synopsis
SIGMUND (60), a clean, methodical German man, dreams of spending his retirement in Torabago, a tropical island where it is constantly 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit). Since 1993, he has been owning a shipping container and developing a perfect system with an architectural design software to pre-organize all his belongings so they all will fit in the container. Every day after work, Sigmund visits Hamburg’s cargo port. There he is meeting with his only friend DOMINGO (52), a Cuban man, who dreams of going back to Cuba. In the port Sigmund also is giving the migrant workers free advice on how to organize the objects inside the containers, mainly because he can't stand the fact that they do it so wrong.
Then unexpectedly, Sigmund's retirement arrives early. He is overwhelmed by the news. Even though he prepared all his life for this day, he doesn't feel ready. Shortly after, at the cargo port, he meets ALICIA (45), a clean, methodical woman who is working a fast-food stall. When Sigmund finds out that she is from Torobago, he immediately falls in love with her. Now he's certain what he's missing to finally leave Hamburg. He creates a perfect plan to conquer her heart and take her to Torabago with him. He even agrees to use his organization talent and his system for a semi-legal TV-export business with Domingo. When Sigmund finally dares to confess his love to Alicia, she rejects him firmly. She has different dreams, and describes Torabago as a shit hole. Sigmund, who is stuck in the past since 1993, for the first time uses the internet to catch up with the news. He finds out that Torabago has been shaken by civil war and heatwaves for years. To make matters worse, the TV business fails because of some miscalculation. Domingo is gone, too: He finally got his papers to go back to Cuba. For the first time, Sigmund tries to fit his belongings into the container for real. But they don’t fit. It turns out that Sigmund's perfect system had an error.
Sigmund is devastated. Everything he has ever believed in has turned out to be an illusion. Sigmund has to update his software, catch up with the world and find a new dream to prepare for. And until that dream comes true, he keeps visiting Hamburg's big cargo port every day, watching ships sailing by and helping the migrant workers to fill containers — because they're still doing it wrong.