- An Internet-addict, Gero, is lured back to reality by the internet-based game 'geocaching' and discovers himself and the world anew - which positively affects his outlook on the future and his relationship with his faithful partner, Linda.
- Gero, a man in his thirties who is an Internet-addict and has not left his home for years, is introduced to the Internet-based game geocaching by his desperate, long-time girlfriend Linda. While reluctantly and secretly beginning to hunt for caches, Gero cant help but face his own timid and egocentric Self while rediscovering existence beyond the Internet. His own physicality, his new contact with nature and the scary and weird encounters he has in the world outside his room force him to deal with his most private feelings and needs. Gero begins to evaluate his life anew, while being challenged by his own inner voice and the geocaching-related Internet-personalities lead by Sixtus Dahastus, who unknowingly triggers Gero to hunt for a mystery: the golden cache. Gero indeed discovers that special treasure but it is something entirely different than he had expected
Geocaching is a trend that has been spreading all over the world since its introduction in the late 1990s. It is principally the hiding and seeking of plastic containers with the help of a GPS-device and sometimes connected with intense research. Every cache found brings a point to the cacher, which makes the game a competition. The points and cache-finds are registered on the Internet which is thus the connecting platform of this game: One can only learn about caches and join the groups of point-collecting cachers through logging onto the official geocaching-websites. Once a cache is found, the finder needs to register his or her cachers name in the paper-logbook in the container, but it is imperative to log the cache on the Internet as well. The virtual world of the Internet is thus the basis of a game that gets people out into the material world and into reality facing all of lifes joys and challenges, but especially other human beings: the ones encountered in person while geocaching and those of times past related to the historical places that are visited due to the games requirements.
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By what name was Geronia: His Own Wide World (2010) officially released in Canada in English?
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