The unsuccessful inventor Leo Bergert is the awkwardness in person: Everything he tackles goes wrong. His latest project, the development of a totally new fuel goes, clearly failed. Now he is deeply in debt, and the bank will immediately return their money. As also leaves him his Dauerverlobte and also the rich Erbtante nothing rausrückt, he sees only one way out: Suicide. But even while he proves to be a failure: All attempts to convey himself to death, miscarry. He hires a hitman to kill him. But then his situation improves suddenly, he wants to live and make the job undone. But that turns out to be not so easy.

Schlimmer könnte es für Leo nicht kommen. Die mühsam akquirierten Investoren laufen dem Erfinder weg. Sein revolutionärer Treibstoff ist ein herber Reinfall. Wegen seiner argen Geldnöte wendet er sich an seine reiche Tante Steffi. Aber die hat seine Faxen lange dicke und verweigert die Rückzahlung eines hohen Kredits zu übernehmen.