The documentary “An Awkward Customer - The Writer Günter Grass” accompanies the Nobel Prize-winner of 2005 until the presentation of his controversial novel “Peeling the Onion” in October 2006. While working on his novel, he travels to readings, attends election meetings, award ceremonies and discussions with translators and travels to Paris with his actress daughter Helene Grass. Viewing Günter Grass from a close distance it becomes evident that his juvenile belief in the Nazi regime is the open wound which has motivated all his work, both as an artist and as a political individual. Interviews with colleagues and friends such as Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, his editor Gerhard Steidl and German ex-chancellor Gerhard Schröder, complete a close portrait that goes way beyond last summer’s media hype about his “SS Revelation” and will still be valid after Grass celebrates his 80th birthday in October 2007.