In Eichwald's long career in politics content mostly played only a minor role - of ingredients he has even less idea. But then he receives an order from the party leader.
The arrival of the younger colleague Bornsen threatens the secure direct mandate of the veteran professional politician Eichwald in the German Bundestag.
Hajo Eichwald made it back to the parliament in this legislative term - with a slim 312 votes ahead. The day Holland is excluded from the European Football Championship because of a doping scandal is not the happiest day in his life.
The doping scandal surrounding the German national soccer team is drawing ever wider circles - now even the Bundestag establishes a committee of inquiry.
Hajo Eichwald wakes up at eight in the morning with a hangover and cancer diagnosis. Surrounded by the police in a school in Bochum, he contemplates his political future and the ruins of his life.