He simply can't say no. Whenever a bookseller, a community college, or another cultural institution calls and asks for a reading or a lecture, he agrees. So the gifted storyteller rushes back and forth across Germany, knows every hotel, and ends up feeling like a stranger to himself. One day, a friend suggests the idea of duplicating himself. With a newspaper ad, he seeks lookalikes who will travel on his behalf, allowing the real Rafik Schami to stay home and quietly write new books. But disaster is inevitable...