After Egon kills himself at an auction of his painting the global economy collapses as Esmeralda, the childless and eminent art curator, obsesses about maternity vetoed by her fiercely anti-personal husband.

After university graduation, an intelligent and principled Adonis takes a job with a “headhunter” and triumphs over unscrupulous colleagues as he “gets the girl”, a Westernized Muslim whose devout twin introduces a farcical collision of Western and Muslim cultures.