Scheitz is caught straightaway, while Bruno wanders through a deserted tourist trap, closed for the season, and activates a ski lift. The bank's friendly representatives repossess the motor home and its contents, leaving Scheitz and Stroszek destitute. Waitress Eva, fed up with Stroszek's drinking and inability to manage their debts, resumes whoring at truckstops and eventually drives off with a client. Soon they are living in a motor home with a color TV, but malaise sets in. They wind up in Railroad Flats, Wisconsin, casual employees of the hospitable local farming community, and the immigrants discover the joy of buying on credit. United States has invited him over, Stroszek and Eva go along. Eva's estranged pimp repeatedly robs and bullies poor Stroszek when Scheitz announces that a nephew in the Released from prison, harmless street musician Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S.) moves into a Berlin slum and befriends prostitute Eva (Eva Mattes) and elderly piano-tuner Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz). Shot in a flat semi-documentary fashion, STROSZEK is Werner Herzog's bleak tragicomedy about a group of German misfits confronting America.
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