Because Piter Carstens wants to cheat the insurance, he fakes his own death. A corpse is found quickly. But it is much more difficult that the corpse will be found properly by the authorities.
A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on the constitutionally enshrined equality of men and women in the GDR. The film was awarded a medal at the 1982 congress of UNICA, the Union Internationale du Cinéma, in Aachen.