Plot
Karl Hirnschall is in his thirties and is a member of a Viennese avantgarde theatre group in the early seventies When he is finally fed up with acting for low fees he goes back to his former life He becomes the right man for a grocery firm whose products he sells with great success The neosalesman manages to acquire a furnished appartment for himself and his young girlfriend Traude When his income does not keep pace with his expenditures Karl resorts to shady business deals