Writer and reporter Egon Erwin Kisch, who was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, was one of the most important reporters of the 20th century. Kisch reported in the 1920s from Asia, North Africa and the Soviet Union and published in 1925 his reports in the book The Raging Reporter whose title became a catchword for himself and his work. In addition to his reports on current political affairs, he wrote about the working world, the lumpen-proletariat, and the exploitation of the working classes. He saw his work as a social commitment. After 1933, he went into political exile and wrote from Paris, Australia, the Spanish Civil War, Mexico and the United States. He returned to Prague in 1946.

In the film essay Do you know where Mr. Kisch is?, the documentary film-maker Eduard Schreiber searches for the roots and traces of the raging reporter in Prague. Omnipresent in the film, sometimes blurred, sometimes clear, the man with the hat symbolizes the search for the reporter who breaks away from his hometown Prague out into the world.