Gastarbeiter stories (2021)

12 episodes of docudrama set in Vienna during celebration of fifty years of the arrival of gastarbeiters (guest workers) from socialist Yugoslavia to Austria. Austria needed a work force, so an agreement was signed to allow for the reception of a large number of workers from impoverished parts of Yugoslavia. Three taxi drivers are faced with problem of social welfare cuts and taxes. The three men are connected through a witch doctor from Eastern Serbia, who they see regularly so she can read their future from the cards or provide them with protection from negative forces. Behind lush facades of Vienna's buildings resides a world of superstition and desperate people who are trying to resolve their problems in a old way.