Krieger (Willy Ziegler) is a traveling salesman peddling cosmetics for an American firm ("Blue Eyes") in Switzerland. Exhausted, traveled out in middle age, he has only one aim in life and that is, paradoxically, to keep on moving. The odyssey of this modern-day Ulysses through Switzerland's industrialized north, its roads and hotel rooms, its bars and, of course, its beauty shops, is traced--perhaps haunted is the correct word--by cameraman Clemens Klopfenstein. What seems on the surface a kind of cinéma verité is actually remarkably controlled, even in the restlessness of a hand-held camera. In penetrating the all-too-real, Klopfenstein makes it surreal. Since the name Krieger also means "warrior," the film's German title has the double entendre of "traveling warrior," appropriate for what the director has called "a portrait of a country, and of a man who travels through it."