Molly wants to hear a story so Leo tells her about how he lost his reflection that morning while shaving. Austria's submission to the Academy Award foreign film competition in 1984.

An old man is to be evicted from his home. He is the last tenant in an old house. He refuses to leave the flat and barricades himself in and spends his time writing protest letters to the government. Harder measures are soon taken against him.

A young ex-convict returns to his home village. But he soon realizes that nothing is the same for him as before.