Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a comfortable apartment and a stress-free office job, where soon he is making friends with co-workers. He even quickly meets and moves in with a pretty interior designer, but their life together seems to be ruled by routine and mechanical sex. Before long, Andreas starts to notice that something is very wrong--everybody in this town is always content, but without passion or strong emotion; the food is always tasteless, and even the alcohol has lost its inebriating effect--it’s a superficial, insipid world. Not being able to bear a life without emotions, Andreas makes several attempts to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out, and even several attempts to kill himself prove unsuccessful. It is then that he meets Hugo, an older man living in a basement, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack, and even the smell of a freshly baked pie--maybe this hole leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched, but will Andreas and Hugo be able to get out before they are found out by the city’s authorities?