Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind

What inspires people to take the initiative and organize communal living for themselves? What ideals drive them and how does the financing work? On the basis of six self-managed residential buildings in Austria from 40 years, this documentary sets out to find answers. The pioneers of the cooperative living project in Graz-Raaba talk about their experimental ideals of the 1960s and about growing old in community. The most recent buildings, the housing project Vienna Nordbahnhof and the project willy*fred in Linz, show completely different models and social milieus. The film not only sheds light on the social and socio-economic demands of the projects, as well as their socio-political significance, but also provides insight into the everyday, small and large achievements, discussions and conflicts that life in the collective entails.