Of a man who has everything to lose and a woman who can only win ... 'Aufsteiger' is a cleverly observed story about ambition, delusion and people of yesterday who desperately try to continue swimming at the top. Felix Licht sacrificed everything for his career: his best years, lifelong friendships, time with his wife and child. Now only the last step is missing, the appointment as editor-in-chief of the country's most important magazine. But then publisher Christian Berg, once a fashion czar of the new right-wing scene, now reformed and self-proclaimed savior of press freedom, reveals to him that it is not Licht who gets the job, but Zoe Rauch. Zoe, of all people - young, beautiful, woke. The woman Felix has had to think about all the time for twelve years.