Exciting when parents flee from the police with their children in tow. But for the three siblings, the adventure soon turns into a nightmare. Their odyssey takes them across Europe. A novel like a road movie. A family story that is both tragic and comedic. Father, mother, and three children in the Palatinate province of the 1980s. Car salesman Jürgen and his wife Jutta are in debt but happy. When suddenly a large sum of money appears, the family hastily emigrates to southern France. There, the three siblings live like in paradise, but the parents behave increasingly strangely—until a coincidence reveals that the father is a con artist. He has embezzled the money and already spent it when the noose tightens. At the last moment, the family flees from the authorities' grasp, leading to a chase across Europe.