Georg is a writer hoping for his big breakthrough. When he meets the unemployed Alois, he recognizes in him the novel material he has been so desperately searching for. Alois has a strange habit: he entangles his fellow human beings in absurd situations seemingly without meaning. Georg decides to get to the bottom of Alois' behavior and gets caught up in a chain of such bizarre, embarrassing and threatening events that he soon finds himself in over his head.