Georg is a writer hoping for his big breakthrough. When he meets unemployed Alois, he sees in the other man the material for a novel he was searching for so desperately. Alois has a strange habit: For no apparent reason, he involves others in absurd situations. Georg decides to get to the bottom of Alois’ behavior, and as a result becomes tangled in a series of unbelievably bizarre, embarrassing and even dangerous events that soon become too much for him to handle.