Somewhere in a war zone. Three young stationed soldiers try to distract themselves from everyday wartime existence. One of them takes notice of a local girl. The comrades follow her.
Perpetuate a series of murders against members of the aristocratic family Decker. Laura, married to one of them and the city attorney will investigate laboriously trying every means to discover the murderer who has outstanding debts with the family.
In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.