A selfish, broken deadbeat on the road, finds his life changed by a deity and gets the opportunity to win a huge sum of money only to realize that the price for the affluence is higher than he expected.

SYNOPSIS:

Docks, red-light district. Drug-addicted, homeless and human leftovers from yesterday's party night.

Konstantin, a bum who lives from defrauding and mugging others and stony-broke, see his only chance to increase his little money in a gambling hall on a Sunday morning.

After he spend his last token without any payout, a mysterious deity, Hel, goddess of the underworld, emerges from a slot machine and offers him a game which is named The Book Of Hel with seemingly easy money to gain.

The conversation takes place on the screen of the slot machine and while Konstantin speaks with his own voice, Hel answers straight in font only.

Hel provides Konstantin to exchange words against high payouts.

She asks him how many redundant words are there in the language of humans, and he answers that there are many who have nearly the same meaning or are synonyms. Two horrendous images from old Norse legends, the wolf Fenrir and the giant serpent Jormungandr pops up too. Beneath jump of the words, that his decision is irrevocable.The words will be keep sealed in The Book Of Hel for ever and never again be at his disposal for the rest of his life.

Konstantin assures what exactly never again at his disposal means. The two figures respond with neither in his language nor in subject matter. He than asks if all synonyms get's a payout and on what condition. The goddess Hel appears and explains the game to him. Verbs and other word categories amount 50 Euro and nouns will be 100 Euro. The matching line of the wolf Fenrir doubles the benefit and that of the serpent Jormungandr increase fivefold.

Konstantin, suspicious of this entity, demands the evidence that it's not a scam she tries on him. He wants three free spins.

The goddess answers that he shall choose a noun and he will be rewarded immediately. He chooses the word, book, and the matching line of the wolf Fenrir appears. The slot machine spits out 200 Euro.

He chooses to say a full sentence, that he will have plenty of money for the rest of his life.

The goddess count the words in total and with the line up of the serpent his winning token is

3.750 Euro.

Konstantin waits for the payout. Instead of his tokens the screen shows the words:“Evil men go to Hel and dwell in fog. More than ever if you steal from the weakest and most defenceless. This is my judgement.“

The giant serpent begins to slither from the machine and enfolds him in its crushing embrace and pulls back carrying the screaming and choking Konstantin with it. Both shrink and vanishes back into the tray's ejection slot. Hel looms.

On the screen it reads:“Life, is not exchangeable and there is no synonym for that.“

The face of the slot machine changes to the image of a city in Nevada and the words:

“ Las Vegas Casino.“