Searching for Phoenix

Phoenix is tasked by the German Ministry of Interior to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Europe and the German economy by conducting interviews on a journey across four European states.
In Italy, Phoenix is confronted with the pandemic burden on the health system, discovering the massive human imprint on individuals and their memories connected to death and loss.
Further confrontation with the social and economic inequalities in Greece, the ignorance of a rich north in Finland, and almost beaten to death in a social riot following a soccer game in France, Phoenix becomes progressively detached from his old ways of looking at the world.
Finally returning to Germany, Phoenix understands that his former ways to engage with the world are no longer relevant and begins to feel world again.