Synopsis: The poet Walter Kranz (Kurt Raab) faces a total creative crisis: Once called the “poet of the revolution,†he has not produced a word in two years. What remains are debts, a haranguing wife (Helen Vita), and a retarded brother (Volker Spengler) who collects dead flies. But after Kranz kills his rich lover, the blood in his poetic vein is revitalized. Yet, the work turns out to be a plagiarism of a poem by Stefan George. This is when Kranz develops the mania to be George himself.