The shy Michael dreams of becoming a great director and wants to make a romance. His childhood friend Bobby - owner of a red light bar - agrees to fund Michael's first film. On one condition: porn instead of a romance.

Seven-year-old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite this, Adrian has a happy childhood, the best of all worlds. But it is tested to the limit when the authorities and child welfare services find out about Helga's addiction.

The once successful director Hans has reached the low point of his career. He finds himself trapped in an acting revenge fantasy spun for him by dead actresses living their lives in hell, at the end of which he dies.