Charlotte is a moderately successful film director who wants to make a political film, and really dive deep into the lives of socially disadvantaged women. There she makes the search for a single parent Hartz IV recipient and meets Gloria S. Gloria is her dream cast, but she doesn't know that Gloria is a real actress. Everything goes smoothly until the whole hoax blows up ...

After directing a successful feature film, Charlotte experiences an anti-climax. Against the wishes of her producer she decides to make a documentary about poverty and social hardship in a bid to regenerate her artistic sensibilities.