Two completely opposite people are forced by external circumstances to spend an entire day together. After a canceled flight, Livius Reimer and the exhilarated Lea von Armin have to share the last available rental car to get from Munich to Berlin. While the well-adjusted teacher and father-to-be wants to save his marriage, even though his wife Yvonne has cheated on him, the plans of Lea, who in Livius' eyes is the incarnate cliché of a "tofu terrorist", change from one minute to the next. No wonder, since the lively journalist actually wanted to travel to an interview with the "Last Day Men", a group of people who live for one day as if it were their last.
And as if all this wasn't turbulent enough, the smartphone always delivers discrediting travel impressions to Yvonne when it seems most inconvenient - just a few hours before the marriage counseling is due to begin...
Despite all the comedy, Sebastian Fitzek's novel "The First Last Day" also poses very existential questions about meaning, commitment, individuality and followership. At the end, an unforeseen twist awaits the audience, allowing them to see the world with different eyes.