For eighteen years, the civil servant Stefan Fink worked in the office he had established himself. Then his party loses the state election, and the new, young state secretary Tronkenburg informs civil servant Fink that he will be reassigned. There have been massive complaints about Fink's conduct in office. Now, it becomes a fight for Fink's honor. Fink was a passionate civil servant. His profession and life have become inseparable. His struggle for rehabilitation turns him into a non-person. Even when his own party returns to power, the fight does not cease. Civil servant Fink has helpers. But the longer he wages his war, the more he must realize that this war is solely his. No one needs it as much as he does. Stefan Fink separates himself from the civil servant Fink who is waging this war. A conversation of self-division begins.