An old married couple lives on an isolated farm. For his daily work the farmer has an old donkey to help him. When the pragmatic farmer learns that the death of his longtime companion is near,he notices that he loves the animal more than he can admit.
A music professor facing redundancy and a serious hoarding habit is pushed to extremes when he discovers his girlfriend has given a treasured 1960s band jacket to charity. He enlists a young ambitious musicologist to accompany him on a mission to retrieve the jacket.
A failed musicologist Szabo and his younger successful ex-colleague Fitzthum take on a new series of adventures. This time they need to find a substitute for a missing parrot of a rare breed as well as bribe a foreign university professor with a rare Viennese vinyl.
The young musicologist Mr. Fitzthum visits Mr. Szabo in his flat in order to get back an important sheet of music. He finds a man sitting in a countless number of documents and papers dealing with his collapsed idea of life.
