Cuando uno de los atracos que lleva a cabo Casey Stein sale terriblemente mal, este se encuentra en la carrera que encabeza el despiadado jefe de la mafia, Hagen. Ahora Casey tiene una preciada y cara carga entre sus manos que debe proteger para pagar la emergencia médica de su novia, Juliette, que está en el extranjero. Por ello, Casey llama a un ex empleado y contrabandista, Geran, para que proteja a su novia antes de que el mafioso ponga las manos sobre ella.
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
