Love scammers write to older single women on social media using fake profiles. They pretend to be in a romantic relationship in order to ask them for money under grotesque pretexts. Love scammers often live in precarious conditions in countries of the global South and have few prospects for the future.

The starting point for this multimedia performance are chats that Martina Hefter entered into over several months with love scammers - in the knowledge that they are love scammers. In the chats, she begins by telling monstrous lies herself. What initially provokes a certain triumph and is also associated with questionable fun, quickly becomes a game with existential questions.

In this soft war, two marginalized groups face each other: older, lonely, media-inexperienced women from the Western world who long for togetherness, and people who often lack prospects for the future under the current global conditions. There is a central term for the needs of both groups: longing.