It was the worst accident that ever happened during film-shooting in Germany and beyond, but very few people know about it. After 25 years, Thomas Frickel, who is a director and producer himself, draws a very personal portrait of his friend and colleague Martin Kirchberger – as a depiction of the eighties somewhere in the German province, as a document of the upheaval and awakening of young people, and at the same time as a transgression along the fine line between fiction and reality.