Among human remains, barely alive, operates the investigator. A bitter man, a mole that digs his way among the facts and fictions of life. Beaten, broke, hungry and liable to be evicted.
The bohemian filmmaker and composer Manfred plagued by an event in the past. At the age of sixteen, his father died. When Manfred was coming from Karlsruhe with his father's grave urn, to spread ashes over the ocean, the tram collided.
The neurotic director Max Karlsson tries to do a film of Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". He finds all actors for his melodrama - except Lotte, the wonderful girl who is an object...
About Bror Hammer, a 35 year old man, who because of insomnia, reads vast amounts of pulp fiction. His life is becoming one with what he reads.