As he lays dying, Lothar Schramm, the notorious serial murderer dubbed the "Lipstick Killer" by the press, flashes back on fractured scenes from his life -- the lust he felt for a prostitute, the days he spent fascinated by the rolling waves of the ocean, and the many people he butchered. An unflinching look into the warped mind of a killer, this is director Buttgereit's answer to the public's intrigue with blood and carnage