But today - Hartmut is a casual jobber and bitter, Lorenz in the middle of his midlife crisis and just before burnout - fate brings the two men together and sends them on a turbulent journey through Germany.

Lorenz transfers a luxury car for his company, the birthday present for a prominent advertising medium, and takes Hartmut along as a hitchhiker. And suddenly he has a passenger with whom he has more in common than either of them realize - in a luxury car that belongs to neither of them.