The auteur Lazlo Kovac has had his film project canceled. Too old, heart problems and no longer employable. Didn't the Hungarian from Balaton want to go really high? What now? Continue to be on the back of his successful wife? Lazlo slides into a real life crisis and finds solace in a mad woman from the neighboring village. When a right-wing AFD politician lets himself be nominated as the only candidate for mayor, Lazlo seems to come to his senses: in order to prevent the right-wing idio in his village of 120 people, he hastily lets himself be nominated as a liberal opposing candidate. SURVIVAL IN BRANDENBURG is a comedy about age discrimination and the post-midlife crisis with a topical connection to the political situation.