In 2016, writer and director Peter Triest won the prestigious Media Fund Prize at IDFA with a film script about Eastern European truck drivers who are one of the many invisible gears in the European machine. His research brought him to Bulgarian Petar Doychev who lives for months in the cab of his truck. Petar's main motivation is money, to achieve a brighter future for his family. But what Europe gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. He sees his son grow up through the screen of his telephone, his marriage is crumbling before his eyes. Does the highway really lead to a better life? Or is it a dead end? Taking you from the hot Spanish desert to the snow-covered northern Scandinavia, A Parked Life is a delicate observation of a man who, in search of a better life, loses himself.