Mustafa (21), a sensitive worker in a chemical factory, is shaken when his colleague Bernd (63), a hobby writer, portrays him as the guy who dies first in a crime novel set in their workplace. Determined to change the story, Mustafa rewrites himself as the main protagonist seeking revenge for a colleague’s accidental death, blaming their boss. Mustafa finds an audience in the other colleagues who join in while the creative rivalry with Bernd pushes him to take increasingly radical steps.
However, the story begins to spiral out of control when Bernd turns Mustafa’s alter ego into a murderer. Unable to distinguish between reality and fiction, Mustafa
feels challenged to explore whether he is capable of committing murder.
After forcing his way into his boss’s house resulting
in violence, guilt begins to torment Mustafa. Soon, rumours spread at work that he might be involved in the supervisor’s mysterious disappearance. Mustafa must prove that he can choose a different path in order to regain control over his own narrative.