故事发生在1958年的西德,乔汉(亚历山大·斐林 Alexander Fehling 饰)是一名法院公诉人,专门负责处理违反交通安全法案的诉讼案件。一天,在法院里,他偶遇了一位名叫托马斯(安德烈·席曼斯基 André Szymanski 饰)的记者正在大声的控诉一位中学教师,他指认对方在二战期间是奥斯维辛集中营的监视人,如今却逃脱了法律制裁。
Juan Debré has spent a lifetime playing a hero in a popular TV series. When he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he withdraws from his everyday life. Aware of having wasted his life, he escapes from a film shoot to travel to Brussels. In the land of his childhood hero, Tintin, he seeks to answer a question that has haunted him all his life: ?Could I be a real-life hero??