The actor Holger Miesbach can no longer pursue this or any other profession, for psychological reasons and despite ongoing psychiatric treatment. While his mother offers telephone sex, during which she pretends to be a minor and always forgets to be paid, he devotes himself to painting, but above all to the joy he had in collecting autographs since he was a child. When the actress Gloria Mundi, who as a teenager celebrated success with revealing scenes but killed her mother and her lover in Hollywood in 1961, returns to Berlin, Holger's soft spot for the worn-out star increases to obsession.