At the time of the regime change, Imre Kopa travels to Austria with three suspicious characters to buy various items for his client. But in Vienna, nothing goes as planned.

Woyzeck ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his common-law wife begins an affair with a local cop, Woyzeck's pocket Bible and near-starvation diet point him on a downward spiral of twisted redemption.