The young accountant Adrian (Max Riemelt) is promoted after the termination of his predecessor and takes over the annual audit of a private investment bank. But the joy of career advancement is short. The businesswoman Rebecca (Anna Drijver) encounters the dark secret of the bank: the books are manipulated. Adrian realizes that he only got the position to wave his way through the bank’s semi-silky deals. But he defends himself: In order to prove the balance sheet manipulations, he even exceeds the limits of legality. Adrian is caught in a trap. It was used, just like its predecessor. It seems increasingly clear that Adrian is on his way of fate: Unconsciously he fell in love with the same woman and got caught in the same web of balance sheet manipulation and insider trading that gave his predecessor the for the rest of his life. Adrian realizes that from now on he has to do things differently in order to survive.