In 1927 the German-American Kaspar Bäuerle returns to his hometown Siebenwasser together with his daughter Irene. For he believes that Germany's future is secured by the constitution of the Weimar Republic. But the external idyll of Siebenwasser is deceptive. The political mood of the inhabitants is irritable, the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles are felt by many to be unfair. The NSDAP uses the tense economic conditions in its own way: It successfully recruits many young people. One of them is Hans Diefenbach, a primanian ...