A family finds it difficult to talk about feelings, love or intimacy. Hiring, selling and repairing excavators requires the attention of the family. Everyone has to pitch in. When the daughter has a fatal accident, the family idyll falls apart.

Over the course of five years THE DRIVEN ONES follows tomorrow's business elite: from their studies in the best master's program worldwide through to the first years of their careers.

Samuel, Malcolm, Remy, Jan, Kowalski and Jasper have no problem at all with being gay. Unfortunately, their friends, their parents and sometimes even their crush do. But that's no reason for sadness: experiences have to be made. And maybe after the next party everything will look completely different. Youth research!

Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired colleague of his best friend Andreas. As the two get close, Andreas finds himself irritated and put in the uncomfortable position to watch his best mate helplessly fall in love.