После смерти мужа Карола Ламберти самостоятельно управляла семейным цирком. Но её трое сыновей, которые являются успешными артистами циркового представления, настаивают на том, что у них тоже есть право управления семейным бизнесом. После жёсткого семейного спора, Карола отошла от дел, и бизнесу грозит полный провал под неопытным управлением молодыми сыновьями…
The good-looking blond Iris is kidnapped by a gang of traffickers and shipped to Rio De Janeiro. There she is expected to fetch top prize from potential buyers of young women.
A novelty in German post-war history: a young woman (Eva Rimski) becomes mayor in a village. She is efficient and enjoys respect, but soon enough two villagers disagree with her work. In her predecessor, a prominent farmer (Arno Paulsen), she has a bitter enemy. But even her boyhood friend (Reinhard Kolldehoff), who wants to marry her as he returns home from captivity, can not accept that his future wife holds such an office.
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.