In Krawutzi Kaputzi, characters from Austrian children's television in the 1970s and 1980s make a comeback. Johannes Glück has written a play that shows the lives of the characters in Meidling (a district of Vienna) two decades after their great television careers.

Hanna Leitner, wants to escape the bourgeois corset and her husband Anton, who sexually harasses her. She goes into therapy with Otto Gross and follows him to Monte Verità, where she discovers the fascination of photography.