Abel is an eccentric, agoraphobic twenty-three-year-old who has spent his entire adult life refusing to step foot outside his parents' pathologically neat bourgeois home, passing the time by fruitlessly attempting to clip flies out of the air with a massive pair of scissors. His suffocating existence is enabled by his doting mother, Duif, who coddles his childish behavior, triggering a toxic domestic war with his aggressively frustrated father, Victor. When a theater-style setup designed by a psychiatrist to force Abel outside goes spectacularly wrong, Victor finally loses his mind and violently ejects his son onto the streets. Completely lost in the urban jungle, Abel is taken in by Zus, a compassionate peep-show performer. As Abel experiences physical intimacy for the first time, his new domestic bliss collapses into surreal chaos when he discovers a devastating web of family hypocrisy: Zus is actively operating as the secret, long-term mistress of his own father.