The film tells the true story of August Habermann, a Sudeten German, a respected rich man, who wants nothing to do with politics and ideology, least of all the National Socialist one. His best friend is the Czech Bfiezina, and his young wife is half Jewish. When Hitler is getting the Sudeten Germans "home into the Reich", Habermann gets into suspicion of the German Major Koslowsi and the tragic events take their course.