In 2013, five young aspiring German filmmakers feel it is their responsibility to document the Ukrainian Maidan. How could one not deeply care for an event happening at only 2000 km from the center of Europe? In a rent caravan, armed with the latest camera and sound equipment, the film students enter Ukraine shortly after the Maidan demonstrations have been brutally dispersed by the authorities. Not knowing what else to film and still filming everything, they attempt to reach Chernobyl: to them, only that legendary place of doom can equate the loss of their main topic. Entering the forbidden area proves to be an even more illusory task, filled with unpleasant adventures and unexpectedly pleasant encounters.There is already a long tradition of the found footage documentary. The genre’s typical suspense comes from the fact that the surviving filmed material contains clues about how the filmmakers met their fate. „Evropa“ is trying to establish a slightly different genre: the abandoned footage documentary; in it, we get to understand how, on the contrary, the film makers managed to survived their footage.