Paul and Preben are hospitalized at the same time in the same warden, both suffering badly from the same condition: gastric ulcer. Paul is under the damaging influence of a dominant mother and an overachieving girlfriend. Preben's bad fate is that he won the lottery but his ticket got lost. After upsetting the chief surgeon, they are thrown out of the hospital and back on the street they make a radical decision - to live with no mother, no girlfriend - and no money.