You say duels are a thing of the past? Are you sure about that?

When psychiatrist Oskar B. Markov goes to the Alexanderplatz station to file a complaint against someone who challenged him to a duel, the police regard it as a bad joke. After all, in modern Berlin, such 'cultural practices' of dispute resolution have long been replaced by more civilized methods.

Somewhere between a quiet monastery, an opera house, and a rain-soaked meadow, an incredible and very modern story of a duel unfolds at breakneck speed, combining the grotesque and authenticity, irony and relevance.