'Western Wild...or how I found Wanderlust and met Old
Shatterhand' is a mixed genre documentary about the filmmaker making a film
about the famed German author Karl May. The animator (filmmaker) and author
share their will for 'Wanderlust' and an escape from their surroundings (the
animators home in Pennsylvania's the Appalachian Mountains and the author's
home in Kaiser Wilhem's German Empire). This film uses stop motion
animation, found footage, interviews and diary filmmaking to tell a story about
make believe worlds, crime, writing, animating and the will for an escape.