Bastian, who grew up in the DDR, is unemployed and father to a handicapped son. He envies the ostensibly carefree lifestyle of the uptown parents of Munich. He aims to get his son into a kindergarden which is equally trendy as it is traditional, right in the center of Munich-Schwabing. The application process is extremely tough, the parents themselves are the ones who select. How will he ever succeed with his meager existence? Bastian decides to cheat. He changes his identity in order to further his luck and it works! With his polished biography and a special needs child, he is accepted into the exclusive and privately financed institution. It seems like everyone here is different to Bastian - successful, well educated and carefree. He is fascinated and wants to be like them. As he realizes that there is over quarter of a million Euros on the kindergarten's bank account, he decides to extend his fraud in an adventurous way. Perfect father, trustworthy helper, careerist, financial manager. Thought through in minute detail, he ruthlessly stages the ideal Bastian, the Bastian of his wildest dreams, who everyone wants to meet and applauds. And no one suspects, because who would ever cheat a kindergarten?! Until the bomb explodes.