This time, Paul and Hansen Hoepner were not as a couple and as bachelors, but together with Paul's partner Anna König, their then seven-month-old daughter Momo and Hansen's white shepherd dog Ronny: with "All aboard?", these five adventurers ventured into new, previously unfamiliar territory. An element on which they had never traveled before: the waterways and seas of Europe.
They have set themselves a target of 10,000 km. The route is to take them from Berlin via the Rhine, the Main, the Danube, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and back to Berlin via France - all CO2-neutral. To do this, they have converted an old sailing boat into an electric one and fitted it with huge, satellite-like awnings - all "home-made" as always.
The new multivision show tells the story of an adventure in which everything turns out differently than planned: Instead of completing the route in summer, they end up in the icy winter on the Danube. There they are rammed by a drifting beaver dam at night, sail through white-outs in fog banks, run aground and see the beauty of the Danube in winter. On the route through Eastern Europe, they are invited by customs for a schnapps, meet the nudist sailor Adrian and many other funny people: After half a year of life on the Danube, they finally arrive at the Black Sea in spring.
Having reached the sea makes them proud, but now another dimension of the challenge lies ahead of them. The seas offer wonderful moments in which they plow through the waves with solar wings and wind, but also moments full of fear, storms, thunderstorms, illness and despair. But everything turns out well: Hansen, who set off as a single man, falls head over heels in love, and Paul makes Anna a beautiful, very adventurous and surprising proposal of marriage.
The crew goes through break-ups, reunions, high points and setbacks. Instead of Berlin, they end the tour in Athens. What looks like failure at first glance doesn't feel like it for any of the three, because they know: They have overcome the biggest challenges they faced - and they were quite different from what they expected: Paul and Hansen dissect their twin relationship and find toxic dynamics and boundless brotherly love. Anna struggles for a long time to become a real part of the crew. Nothing is glossed over in this show, but the full spectrum of experiences, emotions, doubts and hopes are shown: The open, light and destigmatizing treatment of Hansen's depression, diagnosed en route, which forces Anna and Paul to tackle the Danube from Vienna alone, is just as much a part of the narrative as the failed attempt to cover the entire route sustainably and CO2-neutrally.