Art project, reality or a publicity stunt scam? Few people could make head or tails of the lawsuit that Thomas Skade-Rasmussen Strøbech raised against the artist colleague Das Beckwerk and the Gyldendal publishing house in 2009 for, without notice, having published the novel 'The Sovereign', which described his private life in meticulous detail. But on the initiative of the director Max Kestner, Støbech started to film himself during the two-year trial that followed. And there was no doubt in his mind: he had been robbed of his identity! But the trial is only the beginning of a struggle for control of a reality that progresses in new and unexpected directions, as the case progresses. The concept artist Das Beckwerk, formerly known as Claus Beck-Nielsen, who in 2001 declared himself dead and let a doll of himself be buried under pomp and circumstance, seems to be constantly controlling the diabolical game from a distance. Not even when Strøbech tries to 'coup' the book and sell it under his own name in the United States, do things end up in his favour, and a failed confrontation at the Academy of Arts, an army of changing lawyers and a trail of empty vodka bottles do not exactly make things easier. But the judgment awaits, and it can have some real consequences for what one can allow oneself in the name of art. A courtroom drama, which mostly takes place in the head of the prosecutor.

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