Plot: In 1947, an ordinary German family fights to survive in a wrecked Berlin after the end of World War II. The father is very sick, incapable to work and bring food home; his older son, Karl-Heinz, is a former soldier hiding from the police, afraid of the consequences of fighting in the war; his daughter Eva is waiting for her boyfriend Wolf and goes to clubs at night to bring valuable cigarettes and minor gifts to contribute to the survival of her family; and the twelve year old boy Edmund wanders through the devastated city trying to find work or some food to reduce the starvation of his family. When Edmund meets his former teacher, Herr Enning, he will be led to a desperate final solution.
Alternative Plot: In the devastated remains of post-war Germany, 12-year-old Edmund (Edmund Moeschke) lives with his family and five other families in a battered apartment. His brother, a former Nazi, evades the police hiding there, while his sister walks the streets. As his father (Ernst Pittschau) remains too ill to help them, it falls to Edmund to provide for the family by dealing with the black market. Growing desperate, Edmund allows a former schoolteacher to offer his help and some unusual advice.
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