Rogier Kappers is a fifty-year-old Dutchman with two children from different marriages, a scooter, two guitars, a small apartment in the city, and an equally modest little cottage in the country that is sinking into the mud and has to be raised every now and then with special jacks. His life is full of unfinished projects and many failures. His greatest ambition, however, is to become famous, important, to leave his mark on the world. After many painstaking failed attempts, he decides to become a street musician, playing a makeshift glass organ.