The petty criminal Maik Schäfer (Daniel Donskoy) is able to slip into the guise of a Catholic clergyman in the provinces: thus he escapes the law, but also runs directly into the arms of the parish housekeeper Maria (Susi Banzhaf). She thinks Maik is the eagerly awaited new head of the church. Before he really knows what's happening to him, Maik becomes the new pastor of the small Catholic parish. Perhaps this is not a bad disguise, because after a failed deal by his brother Kevin (Vincent Krüger), he needs to raise 50,000 euros as quickly as possible. He owes it to the gangster boss Jurek, who has sworn that if the debt is not paid, he'll be ...