The film describes tha fates of German, Czech and Austrian emigrant in the years between 1938 and 1942, that is, between the Austrian Anschluss and the time when the last emigrants left the sinking European ship to escape the nazis. The main character is an adolecent boy who, through his good nature, naivete and admittedly limited intelligence, escapes dangers to which much brighter people fall prey. This young man is surrounded by a great number of other nazi victim who, one by one, disappear from his life, mainly by force. But all of them have taught him some thing to make him a more complete peron in the end, a person who is now able to cope with life as it is...