Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn’t without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.

R W Fassbinder directs and stars in this story of a working class homosexual's rise and fall at the hands of his bourgeois lover. Fassbinder's most outspoken depiction of the homosexual lifestyle.