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India, this strange, exotic country full of secrets and contrasts, forms the colourful backdrop for Rainer Erler’s exciting psychological thriller.

Advertising consultant Steffen Schwartz is finally fed up with the success and performance circus of his industry and the entire consumer society. He follows the trend of the time and quits his job at the ripe age of forty-eight. Then buys a plane ticket to Mumbai with the plan to bring him closer to paradise.

But in his search for the meaning of life in contrast to the program, he surprisingly ends up in the arms of a beautiful, seductive woman - and in the web of persecution and murder in the nightmare of a psychological thriller.

While encountering a murdered Indian man in the airport hotel, he becomes an accomplice and suddenly finds himself on the blacklist of the Thugs, an Indian sect that strangles its enemies with silk scarfs. His escape to India suddenly turns out to be completely different to what Steffen Schwartz imagined…..