The young amateur filmmaker Ralf visits a splatter film festival and shoots a new flick himself in parallel with his film group. Exactly at this time, a gruesome series of murders takes place in the city, which quickly also makes splatter films a political issue again through the local press and politics: Fierce political arguments about censorship and bans follow, in whose maelstrom Ralf is drawn in. But in the heat of the moment, everyone plays their own game...