France in World War II. The two German Ede Lang and Anderl Breitner, a Berliner and a Bavarian, have made themselves comfortable in German-occupied France in 1944.
What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets carjacked by a teenager and he is taken hostage in a stickup at the local Sip and Zip.