Peacock

The moustachioed Matthias (Albrecht Schuch) works for a business that rents him out. Not for sex, but for just about everything else and hes good at it. From a companion at a posh concert to a gay lover to a gent who pretends to be a son so he can help his dad get to be president of his golf club, he can turn his hand to most things with aplomb. Except, that is, in his perfectly styled home where he and girlfriend Sophia (Julia Franz Richter) are having troubles. She is fed up with the mundane sterility of their life and with him becoming more and more subsumed by his vocation. When she finally ups sticks, she leaves him having to deal with quite an existential crisis that causes him to completely reevaluate his life. What isnt helping is t...

The moustachioed Matthias (Albrecht Schuch) works for a business that rents him out. Not for sex, but for just about everything else and hes good at it. From a companion at a posh concert to a gay lover to a gent who pretends to be a son so he can help his dad get to be president of his golf club, he can turn his hand to most things with aplomb. Except, that is, in his perfectly styled home where he and girlfriend Sophia (Julia Franz Richter) are having troubles. She is fed up with the mundane sterility of their life and with him becoming more and more subsumed by his vocation. When she finally ups sticks, she leaves him having to deal with quite an existential crisis that causes him to completely reevaluate his life. What isnt helping is t...

In this age of increasingly untrustworthy AI, rampant fake news and unabashedly self-serving social media, its becoming ever more difficult for many of us to distinguish whats real and what isnt these days, almost as if were stuck in a frightening new Orwellian paradigm. Thats significant, not only for how we perceive existence, but even in terms of how we experience and respond to it. In fact, these circumstances might even be looked upon as a metaphysical or existential nightmare. So it is for Matthias (Albrecht Schuch), who works for a Vienna-based organization known as MyCompanion, a business that enables clients to hire individuals to serve as professional impersonators or stand-ins for those in need any need as conditions warrant. H...