What is important when time is up? Five people in the last five minutes before the world comes to an end.

On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent chronology of the events.

Dan-Linh, Count Otto's future wife, is kidnapped. He immediately agrees to pay, but when he hands over the money, he finds Dan-Linh dead in the car. The whole family immediately becomes suspects for the two investigators. Envy, hatred and resentment were the feelings that the family had towards Dan-Linh, but which of the dear family was prepared to commit murder?

Paul seeks happiness in other people’s possessions. In the beginning he searches through his dead friend’s belongings, but soon he starts stealing other people’s things, delving into their lives and changing them radically. The painter Anna does not show her works to anyone until Paul appears and changes her paintings forever. Even the manager Katrin, who numbs herself with alcohol and sexual escapades after work, sees herself forced to rearrange her life.