Three uniformed men in a car driving up a mountain road. Finally they unload their heavy packs and, between bushes and boulders, begin to carry it uphill. The increasingly questionable logic of this process is accentuated by the apparent physical handicap of one of the men.

In Timau, a film suspended between fiction and documentary, Josef Dabernig, his brother Wolfgang and Markus Scherer are working as employees for a telephone network. In order to check the functioning of an isolated phone booth, they park their car and begin to climb a mountain. This action illustrates the sense of isolation from the rest of the world typical for our experience of the mountains, and the spirituality evoked by the total silence of the climb. For Wolfgang Dabernig, partially paralysed after an accident, the climb becomes the metaphor of man’s capacity to overcome obstacles and fears.