Advertising manager Wilms has strangled a girl – possibly. At the airport, he tries to escape his memories. When he is suspected of a crime he probably did not commit, he involuntarily becomes the investigator of his own case...

Nils Philippi, advertising photographer, accuses himself of being an incorrigible hypocrite. He's been that way since he was a child, said what earned him recognition, what made him look good. He knows his problem, he just can't get rid of it. Nils illustrates his suffering to his analyst, putting himself in the limelight once again.