The film documents the life and political career of Angela Merkel. It shows archive images and interviews with contemporaries, including Franz Müntefering, Edmund Stoiber and Norbert Blüm, as well as an exclusive interview with Angela Merkel.

During the donations scandal of 1999/2000, Helmut Kohl gave his legendary "word of honor" not to name any donors. This documentary explores the question of what this word of honor was really all about

Frank Elstner, who has thrilled millions for decades with shows such as Wetten dass..., Die Montagsmaler, Aber Hallo or Verstehen Sie Spaß?, who invented TV hits that everyone knows and loves and that have long been part of the collective memory, wants to bid farewell to the big Saturday evening stage with this show.