Jan is looking for purpose in his life. He has started and cancelled many apprenticeships. He is 23 and has moved to a city where he knows almost nobody. He got a job
as a trainee recruiter at the temporary employment agency Integer. Due to his job, he suddenly finds himself in command of an army of jobseekers in precarious circumstances. In order for Jan to get a permanent contract himself, his boss demands that he puts pressure on the jobseekers. When he falls in love with Anna, a temporary worker and single mum, he finds what he is missing in his life: a feeling of belonging.
A series of thefts occur at the jewellery factory, where Anna is also employed. As the factory manager doesn’t want the police sticking their noses into his business, Jan has to find the culprit. When he discovers that the thief
is Anna, Jan has to make a fatal decision: either he loses Anna or his job. This causes Jan sleepless nights. In order to keep both, he blames the theft on another temporary worker. For Anna, however, Jan’s actions are anything
but a proof of love and she breaks off contact with him. It dawns on Jan that he himself has become part of a sick system of exploitation in which everything has a price and people are traded like goods.