The film depicts a man who becomes a motorcycle grand prix champion in his teens, but suffers an accident, and then tries to make a comeback as a privateer a few years later.

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

Video-store owner Micha is on the verge of bankruptcy. Then, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a journalist portrays him as the mastermind behind the largest mass escape from the GDR.