 Five years after the second globalization: All unemployed persons in the country are labeled with colored badges and exported far abroad. Lillian is an unemployed musician. Only her flute is left from her old life. In order to avoid her imminent deportation, Lillian wants to apply for a job at the bakery. But Robert beats her to it. With the courage of the desperate and an empty stomach, she bewitches the young assistant and this way grifts some bread from him. Robert is fascinated by this mysterious woman and allows her to seduce him and to lead him into the world of musicians, who are hiding from their deportation in an old music house.