The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.

The last films for cinema by Alexander Kluge. Both tell about a dozen stories which complement one another by creating a context. The Blind Director: A young doctor feels that she is redundant. People hurry around. A family sits in front of the computer as if it were a fire in the hearth. A kindergarten teacher is supposed to turn a child over to its legal guardians. The blind director. The present becomes inflammed. Without prior events, the future and particularly a sense of the possible, there is no reality.

克鲁格与卡文的第二次合作是一次美学混搭。在首次合作的影片《快乐哀叹》中，这两位卓越的导演使用了他们档案中的材料，而《奥菲亚》则有了新的内容，尽管是古典的来源。奥尔菲斯和尤里迪斯的预兆和结局都发生了变化：在卡文和克鲁格那里，奥尔菲斯下到冥界，不仅要解放她的尤里迪科，还要解放整个灭绝的人类。在克鲁格的绿幕工作室和大都市马尼拉之间，把一切都在桌上摆放：里尔克和阿多诺，柴可夫斯基和摇滚，猛犸象和不朽。

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.