Joachim Fuchs

Giuseppe's Train Joachim Fuchs

Giuseppe Pavoni, an Italian bachelor in search of better times, moves to Germany and finds work at the railroad in the city of Ulm. He works hard, learning the railroad trade, keeps to himself and dreams of a day he can return home to Italy. But years go by quickly. Now in retirement, and still in Germany, he lives a life of a recluse in an abandoned railroad house. Until one day, retired from the railroad, like Giuseppe, a wagon and locomotive are parked on a rail outside his home. Giuseppe begins to take care of them, day by day, and over time becomes emotionally attached. The wagon and a locomotive become his family. One morning he wakes up to see the locomotive had disappeared! Turns out, or so he thought, it was sold abroad to Austria. With a friend's help he attaches his wagon to a train heading to Austria, and so begins an adventure that will change not only Giuseppe's life, but other lives as well.