Un ouvrier innocent et influençable remporte le gros lot mais se laisse exploiter par son nouveau petit ami bourgeois et son cercle d'amis matérialistes.
Herrman is an ex-policeman from the border of the disappeared German Democratic Republic. Not understanding the world and the change of values after the fall of the wall he invents his own small fantasy world in which he is allowed to go on checking and controlling like in former times.
