Als die Mutter seines Sohnes mit der Pariser Mafia in Konflikt gerät, nimmt Motorradrennfahrer Tony einen Nebenjob als Drogenkurier an, um ihre Schulden abzubezahlen.

Traffic on the B61 road, which connects Rotterdam to Warsaw and cuts through the German spa town of Bad Oeynhausen, is permanently gridlocked. The promised cure is a bypass whose construction is documented for a period of eight years: the efforts of the mayor, police, fire brigade and construction companies, the delays in the construction of the northern bypass and above all the reactions of the affected residents.