In the second entry of Wenders’ road movie trilogy, we visit the cities of Glückstadt and Bonn, a palace along the Rhine, a housing project on the outskirts of Frankfurt, and finally the Zugspitze—all stops along the way on the journey that Wilhelm Meister (Rüdiger Vogler, Alice in the Cities) hopes will save him from the gloomy irritability and heartsickness that plague him in his hometown. In strange, foreign places, he thinks he will be able to do what he has always had an uncontrollable drive to do—write. His hope is that this trip will help him realize his lifelong dream of becoming an author. With this journey, which his mother (Marianne Hoppe) gives him permission to make, he looks to broaden his horizons and, above all else, find himself.