Between 1927 and 1929 race car driver Clärenore Stinnes and cameraman Carl-Axel Söderström travel around the world in a car and shoot a documentary about it...
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, that picks up the souls of the dead.
The sibling Beate (17) and Jens (12) have lost their parent in a train accident, and their remote family tries to get rid of the children to get hold of the land and properties.
