A mechanic, Peter Papenbold, is giving all his free time to volunteer in the children's sport school. When he's asked to switch to teaching permanently - it's a very difficult decision for him.
Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the East to secretly transport weapons for the fight against the young Soviet Union. Marr knows about this and wants to mobilise other workers to stop these illegal deliveries. To muzzle him, Marr is relocated to a remote rail work construction site.
El ponche del director Helmut Weiss se basa en la novela homónima de Heinrich Spoerl y Hans Reimann que se ha convertido en una película alemana de culto. La película cuenta la historia de un escritor, Johannes Pfeiffer, que se infiltra como estudiante en una escuela secundaria después de que sus amigos le dijeran que se había perdido una gran experiencia de vida desde que fue educado en casa.
