A small-time henchman dreams of a big career in the drug business. Bobo is unscrupulous and unpredictable in his selection of methods. He plays with high stakes: the life of his girlfriend Inga. In his blind ambition, he overlooks the fact that Inga has long since made her own plans. Deadly plans!

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.