Sonja Pikart - Strong

There are so many peaks in this country – and it’s not just about mountains: the highest rocking chair in the world, the largest walkable wine bottle in Southern Styria, the fastest summer toboggan run this side of the Danube. Superlatives wherever you look – and they all want to be climbed, conquered, and mastered.

In a world that divides everything and everyone into winners and losers, every small town must have the biggest something, and every person must surpass themselves. But when strength becomes an end in itself, isn’t every peak also a low point?

Sonja Pikart observes how "strong" men consume the planet in their hunger for power. How high performers in the gym train their hearts – not to love better, but to run away faster. In the process, she discovers poetry in times of weakness. Surrounded by an army of nuclear families that believe they have won the game of life, she finds romance in friendships.

And when she is shouted at in the weakest moment of her life: "You are so strong!", she crafts an action figure of herself and realizes: now is the time to feel immortal!

A program about heroes and those who never were.