Many remember the images of the cheering masses vividly. In June 1989 the foreign minister Alois Mock and his Hungarian counterpart Gyula Horn cut through the "Iron Curtain" – from September of the same year onwards the formerly impenetrable border is history. Landscapes have changed since then and economic relationships, mobility and the European right of abode are only natural for today's generation of young Austrians.

But the borders have not disappeared completely. The optimism, that flared up in many places in 1989, seems to have been replaced by doubts and even by the occasional wish to reinstate the border. What effects has the Fall of the Iron Curtain had in the border regions of Austria and where are they headed 25 years later?

The documentary looks into the economic, social and cultural consequences of the "Fall".