英国贵族探险家布鲁克逃离了丑闻和维多利亚时代社会的束缚，去探索19世纪40年代婆罗洲的野生动物。布鲁克爱上了这个热带天堂，与海盗和苏丹的敌人战斗，赢得了砂拉越王的王冠，在那里他统治着一个比英国还大的丛林王国。

Communist East Berlin, early 1980s LUDGER is hired by the Stasi to infiltrate a subversive countercultural movement in the district of Prenzlauer Berg. After falling in love with the mysterious NATHALIE and sleeping with his first target, CORINNA, Ludger ends up living two lives – one as an underground poet and one as a Stasi agent – both of which eventually come back to haunt him 30 years later.