When disaster strikes, Edgar Bendler flees from his life. He becomes a dishwasher on Hiddensee, the legendary island that is said to lie outside of time and "beyond the news." While washing dishes at the Klausner, a pub high above the sea, Ed meets Alexander Krusowitsch - Kruso. A difficult, tender friendship begins. From Kruso, the master and island patron, Ed is initiated into the rituals of the seasonal workers and the laws of their nights, where Ed experiences his sexual initiation. The secret engine of this community is Kruso's utopia, which promises to lead every shipwrecked soul of the land (and of life) to the "roots of freedom" in three nights. However, the autumn of '89 shakes the island. In the end, there is a fight for life and death - and a promise. An island adventure and the story of an extraordinary friendship: Lutz Seile.