The believable, fresh-faced characters are naive American college students; armed with their French-English dictionaries they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.
Siegfried Blum is a small scale criminal, who happens to gain possession of 2 kg Cocaine. When he tries to turn it into cash, he learns that this kind of business is much too big for him.
