Yaak Karsunke

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.

Two men in Münster, who have known each other since their student days, have settled into life without realizing their dreams. They attempt to break with their past and venture a new beginning, which, however, is nothing more than another attempt to escape.

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women, Joanna and Margarethe, as well as upon Günther, his friend who earlier shot his brother.

A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

1920'lerin sonlarında Berlin'de, Franz Biberkopf hapisten çıkar ve doğru yola gireceğine yemin eder. Ancak kısa süre sonra kendini şehrin suç dünyasının içinde bulur.