Hamburg restaurant owners Marianus von Hörsten and Aaron Levi Hasenpusch close their kitchen on weekends, trading turnover for free time, a small-scale bet against the assumption that a business must always expand. The film widens that bet into a national question. Otto Fuchs, a manufacturer of metal components for the automotive and aviation industries, tries to chase 'green growth,' expanding output while cutting emissions, and runs into the sheer cost of Germany's energy transition. Economist Ulrike Herrmann, author of 'Das Ende des Kapitalismus,' argues green growth is a fantasy: decarbonizing fast enough would require more clean energy and more wind turbines than Germany could ever build, so degrowth is the only honest option. Iceland offers a working alternative: after the 2008 crash, the country adopted a 'Wellbeing Economy' measuring housing access, green space, and gender equality alongside GDP, and penalizing environmental damage. Sustainability scientist Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir explains how that measurement change is meant to reshape policy. The film moves between kitchen, factory floor, and government office to test whether an economy can shrink its demands without shrinking people's lives.