Episode 4: Met vallen en opstaan reizen de inpakkers door Duitsland
Creators: name: Bryssinck, Marc
name: Lenaerts, Filip
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Migration
Family
Work
Love

description: Abstract 
On their way to Kosovo, Jasper, Spijker, Cedrik, Max, and Django live the advantages and disadvantages of being on their own. They are able to survive on Roman's stolen credit card, but it is cancelled. In the factory, Roman discovers that their employees have stolen not only his credit card but also the golden truffle that compromises the image of Tytgat Chocolat. Jasper and his friends know Harry in a hostel in Munich. He is accompanied by a motor rider group, which is willing to transport them.

Details 
Jasper, Spijker, Cedrik and Max are escaping through the woods. Their plan is to travel to Kosovo by any means they are able to find during the journey and with the help of the money they saved the previous weeks. The four of them are dressed in scout uniforms. Since Spijker is the tallest and the only one without physical signs of Down's Syndrome, he will pretend to be the guide of his companions. The gang arrives at a transport truck parking, and Spijker convinces one trucker to take them with him. Nevertheless, Django, another coworker of Tytgat Chocolat, was following them until the parking lot, so he ended up joining the journey. The trucker decides to stop after a while in a road bar. Jasper thinks that it is not a good idea to stop because it delays the travel, but the trucker needs to rest, and, in the end, Spijker convinces Jasper to stop as well. When the gang goes into the bar, everybody looks at them. The trucker asks for a beer for each one, but Spijker says that he is no longer drinking alcohol due to his past problems with it. Max makes fun of him and insinuates that he is gay for not doing so. Spijker gets angry, and he drinks his beer in two shots. After this, he starts ordering more beers. In the meantime, Django goes crazy with the slot machine and spends all his money, and Max flirts and dances with a girl at the bar. Jaspers is sitting on a table alone. He is lost in thought with his back to what is happening. In the bar, there is a man who also likes the woman Max is dancing with. He approaches Spijker and asks him to tell Max to stop dancing with the girl, but Spijker is drunk and responds rudely: “You tell him, asshole”. Both start a fight, and the trucker tries to separate them. In the end, the gang and the trucker are thrown out of the bar. 
After this night, Jasper and his companions say goodbye to the trucker, and they start to walk in line on one side of the road with Spijker staggering behind them. They arrive at Maastricht train station, and once there, Jasper takes a look at the map to decide which would be the next destination. He finds out that there is a train to Munich that fits with their route to Kosovo. As Jasper had to deal with buying tickets in the past to go to see Tina, he now knows how the ticket machines work, but when he selects the purchase of five tickets, he realizes that the amount of money exceeds the cash that the entire group has. However, Max shows the group Roman’s credit card that he stole from their boss the karaoke night. Jasper is not sure about using it, but he accepts, saying that they should return the money to Roman when they can. On the train, they are sleeping except for Max, who is staring at Jasper. When Jasper awakes, Max tells him that he wants a part of the prize money since he found the golden truffle. Jasper refuses due to Tina’s right to the entire prize. 
When the group arrives in Munich, Cedrik realises that his GPS watch, which is necessary to be guided, is out of batteries. Cedrik, Max and Django go outside the station to buy it while Jasper and Spijker wait for them in the station hall. The gang have one and a half hours until the last train of the day to Belgrado, their next destination, departs. In the city, the three coworkers are really entertained by street performers and the leisure facilities that the public space of Munich provides. When they go to buy the batteries, Max finds a knife in the shop, and he decides to add it to the purchase. After that, Cedrik, Django, and Max are attracted by the consumerism of a street full of shops and the Roman’s endless credit cards. After buying new clothes, Cedrik tells Django and Max that they should go back to the station, but Max is hungry and influences Django to go to a restaurant with him, and Cedrik follows them with resignation. This morning, Roman and his wife decide to go to a restaurant. There, Roman finds out that he no longer has his credit card, so he cancels the payment transactions immediately. This fact prevents Cedrik from paying the bill in the restaurant, and it delays a lot of their return to the train station. In the end, Cedrik, Django, and Max can escape without paying, but they arrive at the station while the train is already departing. Jasper and Spijker are disappointed and waiting for them on the platform; now, they have to spend the night in Munich. Cedrik informs Jasper and Spijker that they have lost the credit card. Jasper tells them that from now on, they want to make the journey without them, and he and Spijker go out of the station and start to walk, although Cedrik, Django and Max follow them behind. The group realizes that they should go to a hostel to pass the night. They find one and pay for a room with the little amount of money they have. In the communal showers of the hostel, Jasper knows Harry, who is also Flemish and believes that the gang are scouts, and Jasper explains to him about their journey to Kosovo. 
The next morning is Monday, and Romans goes to work. Andy informs him that five of his packaging workers are missing. After that, Roman goes to his office, and there he finds that the drawer where he kept his golden truffle has disappeared. Andy arrives at his office, and Roman keeps this fact a secret. Andy also informs him that Mr. Müller, the German market analyst whom they met online and who encourages the automatization of Tytgat Chocolat production, is going to visit the factory. Back in the factory hall, Roman looks at the TV with his employer's uploaded photos, and he sees that somebody has uploaded a picture of the golden truffle. After that, he remembers that he has access to the GPS implanted in the golden truffle, and they find out where the fugitives are. This same morning, Jasper’s gang is having breakfast, and they meet Harry again. Harry tells them that he is accompanied by a group of moto riders and that they can be carried for a part of their way. Jasper is a little scared about travelling on a motorbike because he thinks that this can be dangerous, but they all end up accepting the proposal. Before their departure, Harry explains to him that he should not be afraid, as they often drive because of their job: they are part of the police force.