A film about modern slaves and masters, about small animals, small apartments, small people, and small stories. About the madness inscribed in normality in Austria. A portrait of the newspaper vendors in their yellow and red uniforms: young people from India and Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey, Muslims from the third world selling newspapers on the streets of Vienna. On one side, the world of newspaper vendors; on the other, the world of newspaper readers in their Austrian salons.

Good News is Ulrich Seidl's first feature film, which he was finally able to make seven years after leaving the Academy of Cinema in Vienna. The screening of a first cut of the film generated strong controversy and could never have been completed without the help of Werner Herzog. With just one copy, screened in a single theatre, the film managed to attract 20,000 viewers. Werner Herzog still includes it among his ten favourite documentaries.