The young director Axel Ranisch is waiting with a plastic rose in his hand for the veteran and provocative filmmaker Peter Kern, who arrives at Berlin Temepelhof from Vienna. The two has never met before. When the overweight Peter is pushed through customs in his wheelchair and Axel respectfully hands him the rose as a greeting, Peter angrily throws it on the ground and hisses at the insecure Axel that he hates artificial flowers and feels deeply offended.