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Daniel Nebel is in dire straits: As an accountant, he has the numbers under control, but as a gambling addict at the roulette table, he's lost all control. His hidden savings have turned into a life-threatening deficit. To avert the impending wage garnishment, he ventures into the inner sanctum: He needs a raise! Spurred on by his assertive secretary, Marianne Lüders, who prefers to call the shots in the office, he confronts his boss, Chris Scholle.

But Scholle, plagued by chronic back pain and the pressure of a secret affair with the demanding bedding supplier Pat, senses a completely different, bizarre opportunity in Nebel's financial straits. Instead of a raise, he makes his accountant an absolutely unbelievable, morally explosive offer: Nebel is to seduce and intimately distract Scholle's depressed wife Johanna – as a paid favor to protect the unfaithful boss from his mistress.

Forced to gamble for his survival, the shy accountant enters into the dangerous game of chance. But what begins as a cynical transaction ignites an unstoppable chain reaction: Fueled by his own imagination, Nebel grows beyond himself, and an unexpected, genuine dynamic develops between him and Johanna.

When all the masks finally fall in the boss's office, the painstakingly constructed house of lies collapses spectacularly. A great, long-kept secret is revealed, radically reversing the power dynamics. In the end, the autocratic boss stands amidst the ruins of his existence, while from total defeat emerges an unexpected, liberating new beginning.