A choreography of excavating machines introduces the rhythm of a family of Swiss workers, from the same mechanical factory: their son Daniel finds himself attracted to his colleague Philipp; his father Paul meets another woman, Claudia, and falls in love with her; his mother Conny, increasingly distant from Paul, feels alone and wants to take back control of her life. The three of them, in their own way, process the disappearance of their young daughter, who died in a canoeing accident on the river near their home.

Crossed by careful scouting shots of the protagonists’ faces and by a pop soundtrack spanning from Gotthard to JJ & Palin, Piet Baumgartner’s Bagger Drama splits in three parts and therefore follows, with equal dramatic dignity, the three protagonists, in a compelling, sometimes elliptical narration that never judges and suspends morality to bring different generations and different genders into the same arena, seconding multiple perspectives to understand anyone’s reasons, even the most incomprehensible ones.