Friendship, status, civil courage. There is no social marker that can’t be scrubbed up very nicely for someone prepared to pay the My Companion fees. Matthias is the top performer at the agency. He expertly adopts a new identity for a few hours every day, acting the role of the educated companion at a concert, the exemplary son visiting from overseas or the dad in a pilot's uniform. But he’s helpless when it comes to simply being himself within his own four walls. Bernhard Wenger's feature film debut PEACOCK spans social surfaces and traces the fault lines between the real and the fake with satirical humour.