Skilled tax-inspector Helena dreams of escaping from her grey “suburban
prison” into the world of the rich and beautiful, where she thinks she really
belongs to.
And successful con-man Sixten lives his life by pretending to be a highly-
ranked diplomat. In order to be flexible he pretends to be involved in secret
affairs in the Near East. Due to some alleged threads, lurking everywhere, he
frequently has to go into hiding. But when Helena and Sixten meet for the
first time his lies suddenly become bitter reality...