When 50-year-old George loses his job as music critic with a Vienna newspaper he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss, which starts out as minor acts of vandalism but soon escalates into far more serious escapades. He spends his days in the Wurstelprater amusement park, where he runs into Erich, the bully who made his life a misery at school many years ago, now also unemployed. Together with Erich and his Rumanian girlfriend Nicoletta, George begins to renovate an ancient roller-coaster. Within just a few days his life goes completely off the rails.