The depressed Herman lives in a retirement home and gets no professional help due to bureaucracy. His daughter is also desperate because he is an alcoholic. He kills someone so he has to go to prison he can be taken care of there.

The downtrodden alcoholic Herman needs professional help, but can't get it. He decides he needs to go to prison so he can be looked after there. He murders a local criminal but when he then tries to confess to the police nobody believes him. Herman goes in search of a second victim. How far does he have to go to get into prison?—Telefilm