Reinhard Münster's comedy about young filmmakers and smugglers is a "road movie" that crosses freely over the boundaries between reality and cinematic imagination. It starts in a poor quarter of Berlin and ends up in a shootout at the Cannes Film Festival, taking numerous potshots along the way at the excesses of auteurist filmmaking. During the filming of the Mexican legend of El Dorado set in modern Berlin, an uncomfortable mood develops when the lead actress becomes pregnant by her leading man, to the dismay of her boyfriend. The two men temporarily bury their rivalry when they are hired by a shady art dealer to deliver paintings to a client in Cannes, but discover too late that their cargo is something far more provocative than modern art.