Marriage Swindler and Con Artist Hauke Born sits in a desolate room. On his ankle: an electronic tag. After six years in prison, he is supposed to reintegrate into society. By his side: therapist Tania, who has been guiding Born on his path back to freedom for years. As he is well on his way to a life of freedom, an unknown woman named Sonja Schwarz suddenly requests a visit.

She claims to be his daughter. Hauke is surprised and skeptical, but the two meet and start to connect. Does Hauke need a daughter? Is Sonja looking for a father? Or is she only interested in the seven million he swindled—money that no one knows the whereabouts of? Hauke, for his part, insists that he got rid of the dirty money long ago: the woman he scammed was a wealthy industrial heiress. And her family became rich in the 1940s through the forced labor of Polish and Jewish workers.

In this play, Lukas Bärfuss explores the art of seduction. Who wants to be seduced? Who allows themselves to be seduced? Do political, romantic, financial, or moral motives play a role? Or are terrible fates merely exploited, soon reduced to anecdotes once those who lived through them can no longer speak for themselves?