Dr. Josef Eins, neurologist, treats the only remaining patient in the clinic, Herrn von KA. Herr von KA was taken to the mental institute after the emperor's death because he lost view of reality. After many years he is to be discharged in the course of the opening of the hospital. For this event Dr. Eins pepares a speech. His wife, Sissi Eins, deceives her husband with the pimp Hans. Dr. Eins commissions the detective Rudi "Spürnase" Kronfisch, who in the course of his investigations suspects espionage and future assassinations.

Dr. Josef Eins, neurologist, treats the only remaining patient in the clinic, Herrn von KA. Herr von KA was taken to the mental institute after the emperor's death because he lost view of reality. After many years he is to be discharged in the course of the opening of the hospital. For this event Dr. Eins pepares a speech. His wife, Sissi Eins, deceives her husband with the pimp Hans. Dr. Eins commissions the detective Rudi "Spürnase" Kronfisch, who in the course of his investigations suspects espionage and future assassinations.

God and the Devil make a bet. Paracelsus, doctor and alchemist, scientist and charlatan, seeker after God and narrator of fariy tales, is allowed to come back to earth to prove that he is capable of winning the love of a woman, having wasted his whole life merely writing about her. Thus he becomes embroiled in the eternal trial between reality and speculation, libido and the rule of the intellect, aiming to swap his pen for his virility and allow his heart to rule over his head.