Batko becomes an informant for the communist secret police. He performs his duties with great zeal and yet, he is dismissed, as the changing political situation in the late 80s renders him useless. The bureaucratic attitude of the State towards his conspiratorial genius aggravates him deeply. His experience with clandestine work makes him recognize a simple fact: the system of the political police is flawed in its very nature of being ironclad secretive. Its operations could be mimicked and its structures duplicated by rogue individuals posing as agents. Now, it would take Batko what he amply has - cunning and fierceness - to masquerade as an agent and mock the state security apparatus that has rejected him. He creates a phantom secret-police department and benefits from that. The provocations that spur the plot forward in a slew of hilarious, yet ghoulish absurdities and sudden turns come from the workings of the conspiratorial mind of a former agent turned psychopathic schemer.