Georg is a writer hoping for the big breakthrough. When he meets unemployed Alois, he finds in him the material for a novel, which he has been desperately looking for. Alois has a strange habit: In a seemingly pointless way, he gets the people around him involved in absurd situations. When Georg decides to get to the bottom of Alois's behavior, he becomes entangled in a series of bizarre, embarrassing, and even dangerous events that soon exceed what he can cope with.