Othello has no reason to feel insecure - he is distinguished, successful in occupation and politics and married to a beautiful and interesting woman. But the many voices of Iago begin their treacherous game - and in the narrow confines that are his entire universe, Othello cannot even grasp the idea of escape.
The grumpy factory employee Hans Himmelreich has to travel behind the Iron Curtain into a profoundly communist Czechoslovakia of the sixties to have his deceased grandmother buried. Despite prejudice he unexpectedly finds happiness in this Sudeten German province.
