In early April 1945 a small British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle in northern Germany, to handle an unfolding medical crisis behind enemy lines. A local prison camp had suffered an outbreak of typhus. That prison camp was Bergen-Belsen. The British had no idea of the true scale of this humanitarian catastrophe nor of what it would come to represent.

The film is based on Christian Kampmann's novels: "Certain Considerations", "Solid Relationships", "Clean Lines" and "Other Ways" (1973-75). The Gregersen family is a picture of inner and outer Denmark from the mid 50's to the 70's. The story begins in 1954 in the well-behaved, but not just successful, Gregersen family from the best part of the whiskey belt on the right side of Strandvejen.

Albert is a rebel who refuses to accept that you can't do what you want and be successful in life without being constrained by a society that has laid out a straight path for your career since you were in kindergarten. That's why Albert rebels against school, his parents, and the whole world to become what he's best at: entertaining the whole world through YouTube. But along the way, Albert is losing his best friends and, worst of all, the one who loves him most, the girl he thinks he's not in love with.

Shifting between documentary, historical reconstruction and melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.