Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. Together with a few friends, among them famous Swiss actor Stefan Kurt, director Aron Nick's father and uncle shoot the idealistic Super 8 film "Dr Tscharniblues" ("The Tscharni Blues") - a wild, unvarnished self-portrait of their generation. 40 years later, Nick gathers the friends at Tscharnergut and asks what has happened to them and their ideals in the meantime.