There are two inns in the village of Hundsling, one too many. When Magdalena arrives for her mother's funeral, she sees how overwhelmed her father Xaver is with the family business, the “Rosi” inn. She decides to save it from ruin. In order to eliminate the competition, the “Casa Toni”, she resorts to quite unfair means. A fierce dispute divides the entire village.
Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.