In her studio, artist Suzy van Zehlendorf is working on a clay sculpture. She wants to create a likeness of Duchess Sophie Charlotte, whose main residence during her lifetime was Charlottenburg Palace. But the work on the sculpture turns out to be difficult. While Suzy searches for suitable materials, she gives us an insight into her life, in which the lines between reality and fiction increasingly blur. The main protagonist is "Homo Bankiva," a hybrid between a human being and a rooster.