The film portrays the lives of three youths in immediate post-war Hannover who are homeless and try to make a living on the black market. When they are falsely connected with a murder they flee the city to the countryside where a sympathetic mayor offers them a fresh start.
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 139
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.