On new year's eve ten passengers missed the last ferry from Germany to Kopenhagen. The weirdo cook of a run-down and very small steamboat offers them a lift and leads them aboard: ten sympathetic little liars. They face all sorts of funny and tragic catastrophes while the crew entertains them with treats, music and dances. lost in-midst of the ocean, stuck in thick fog, with blocked machines and without navigation and electricity, in brief: aware of their hopeless situation they finally confess to each other their life's lies, illusions and false hopes.