The celebrity Lothar Kreutzer (Erich Ude) is photographed by a journalist who seems a little bit sinister to him. Immediately after the picture is taken, Kreutzer disappears. He now lives inside the photograph made by the journalist. The following day, exactly this photograph appears in an article about Lothar Kreutzer´s disappearance in the newspaper. Trapped inside the picture he tries to establish contact with the outside world. The moment Ernst Härtle (Peter Kotthaus) buys the newspaper Lothar Kreutzer´s odyssey begins...