The Institute for Cybernetics and Simulation Research is threatened with closure - the starting point for this satire about how the university system is to be transformed into a turbo-capitalist research machine. Phoebe Phaidon (Sarah Ralfs), a highly qualified, up-and-coming young academic, accepts yet another temporary teaching contract. With her progressive ideals on climate research still more or less intact, she acts as a link to the frustrated, yet combat-ready students who have occupied the library. On the other side of the battle lines are the established faculty, whose will to survive in the cesspool of third-party funding acquisition has ground them down into vain cynics for whom no ridiculous concession to evaluation madness is too grotesque...
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