Franz-Otto Krüger

An elderly executive and his young wife travel to the Riviera, where she will meet a young man and fall in love with him.

Amid the rubble of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to support his ailing father and his adult siblings. Forced into black-market schemes and prey to the pernicious influence of a former teacher with lingering fascist sympathies, he grapples with the moral devastation of a defeated society, leading to a profound personal tragedy.