This is the story of Max, a veteran of the "'68 generation," during one night in his life, twelve years later, when he confronts the demise of that utopian dream and gives birth to another. It is January 13. In Berne, the President of the Confederation makes a New Year's speech full of human rights and the right to individual happiness; Max, a Radio Schweiz International newsman, obtains the speech for his broadcast. Meanwhile, the youths of the Berne Movement are demonstrating in the streets. The confluence of events forces Max to face the personal sense of frustration he feels in politics, his job and his relationship. January 13 is the night Max attempts to make a clean break and travel to Tierra del Fuego for a new start. Clemens Klopfenstein describes E nachtlang Füürland: "We have tried to reproduce the world in which we live for the duration of a moment, a whole night; to let the people we met in restaurants and taverns introduce themselves; and to capture hopes and desires in images--since this is easier to do on film than in everyday life. We have expressed our own doubts and uncertainty through Max--or maybe our inability to do just this."