Idealistic young actor Alex Gaul gets, through confusion with the popular German 'heimat' film star Zacharias Zucker, a chance to put his grubby adult performer past behind him and get hired for a large television production. 'Kaiserschmarrn' is a modern comedy of errors, which moves between porn and German 'heimat' movie sets. 'Kaiserschmarrn' is set in modern day and takes a wild film making ride through 1960s porn and German 'heimat' films.