"Bad people always do well" - with this motto and other cynical sayings, the narrator has become the admired and hated center of a bored upper-class clique. No one knows that he survives on poorly paid odd jobs and an extraordinary gift: alcohol makes him a mind reader. A con artist who exploits the stupidity of the superficial hipster gang, but also an irresistible improviser who finds love in the glamorous Tarán and, out of sheer necessity, gets entangled in an increasingly absurd web of lies, where tattooed mafia bosses and wild chases are part of everyday life. However, this tightrope act can only go well until the newcomer appears...