Hagen, a drinker, bum, and poet, is thrown off course by fatal events. Among the trials that life demands of him is a job at a funeral home. Herod kills babies and considers himself a researcher of silence. There is a high bounty on his head. Judith, sixteen years old, has run away from home and is about to crash land. How are these and other characters connected? Who falls in love with whom, and who wishes harm upon whom? Where opera becomes reality and reality becomes simulation; why horror and fairy tales are so closely related; and why agony and disgust can be so funny - "Fette Welt" is the answer.