خلاصه داستان : وقتی گئورگ شغل خود را از دست داد ، این واقعیت را از همسر جوان خود یعنی یوهانا ، که فرزند با او می خواهد پنهان می کند. درعوض ، او اقدام به انتقام جویی از رئیس سابق خود می کند و شروع به بازسازی یک غلتک با یک دوست قدیمی مدرسه می کند.

Kings should be treated courteously! At least, that's what famous music critic Georg thinks. But he finds himself counting pennies when his chief editor suddenly fires him from the Viennese newspaper for which he has been writing for decades. While keeping his dismissal a secret from his psychotherapist wife Johanna, whose mind is occupied solely by getting pregnant, Georg begins to plot his revenge.