With music by Jick Nacassian and lyrics by Rony Sofu, "Autostop" is an up-tempo number about the tradition of hitch-hiking throughout Europe.

On 19 April 1980, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague hosted by Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), and broadcast live throughout the continent.

Anna Vissi and the Epikouri performed "Autostop" third out of the nineteen entries on the evening and followed Turkey's "Pet'r Oil" by Ajda Pekkan while preceding Luxembourg's "Papa Pingouin" by Sophie & Magaly.

[4] At the close of voting, the performance had received 30 points, placing thirteenth in a field of nineteen.

Vissi returned to the contest in 1982, then representing her native Cyprus with "Mono i agapi", and a third time in 2006 with "Everything", again singing for Greece.