Five theater groups from Sweden, France, Germany, Austria and Slovenia asked a question everyone at some point of life asks: "Should I stay or should I go?", and looked out for many different answers from people all over Europe: How do personal, financial or geographical surroundings, how does the environment in general influence someone's decision to go away or to stay in the same place. Why do we leave or don't? All groups looked deeper into one particular community in their home country: a very rural area in the north of Sweden, companies that have to economize in France, the Transgender scene in Germany, young educated people searching for perspectives in Slovenia and the complicated side effects of love in Austria. The artists went right there to interview people about their reasons to live their life the way they do. All findings and experiences of this research were brought together and inspired the stories of five feature film sequences which examine the question of when a ...