For the first time, a film tells the story of Jean Monnet. It is about a simple cognac merchant without higher education, who was not a statesman, never a politician in the limelight, and yet who played a decisive and often absurd role in the background at all turning points in the world history of the 20th century; he is considered the father of Europe, without him today's Europe and also today's Germany would not exist. A story so fantastic (as unknown) that, as Monnet himself writes in his memoirs, "a scriptwriter who made it up would not find credence with anyone." In fact, however, this "screenplay" can be read as a parable for the present and future of the idea of Europe.