During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program.
Manfred Falk is an experienced race car driver and member of a racing collective in Eisenach. While competing in West Germany, the beautiful Manuela convinces him to leave his girlfriend Inge and his friends at the collective behind in order to join the South American Alvarez racing company.
Adaptación de una novela de Max Cotto. Terminada la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark), un oficial americano, se instala en Berlín y se enamora de Maria, una refugiada (Mai Zetterling). El objetivo de ella es ahorrar suficiente dinero para llevar a Sudámerica a un grupo de huérfanos alemanes y proporcionarles una vida mejor. Joe, movido por la compasión y por el amor que siente hacia ella, tratará de ayudarla. Para ello, él y dos amigos planean el robo de una gran fortuna en oro que el ejército va a trasladar en avión desde Inglaterra a Alemania.
Berlin in 1878: Corinna Schmidt, who was brought up in a petit-bourgeois, academic family, is romantically interested in Leopold Treibel, the son of the lordly councillor of commerce Jenny Treibel – although Corinna is also deeply in love with her cousin Marcel. Leopold is also falling for cute Corinna, and Jenny Treibel tries to prevent their friendship by all means, but changes her opinion when their secret engagement becomes public. To avoid a scandal, she urges them to marry quickly. But Corinna soon withdraws from this complicated situation and again turns to her cousin, who is banished from the country for his social democratic beliefs.
Due to complicity in a robbery raid the young Ursula comes to a detention center, in which the education is hard since she is considered a serious offender. In a joint outbreak, she gains the respect of the other girls.
