Five years ago, the highly paid marketing chief Hartmut Sprenger was fired from his job by the new personnel manager Lorenz Hoffmann – without a word of notice, anonymously, without a personal conversation. But today – Hartmut is a casual jobber and embittered, Lorenz in the middle of the mid-life crisis and just before the burnout – fate brings the two men together and sends them on a turbulent ride through Germany.