The great novels of the fifties - Explosive material in early West Germany: 1923: a society in moral disintegration, full of speculators and smugglers, the impoverished, war veterans, losers, and profiteers. People have learned to survive, but not to find their way in life. Like Ludwig, who lost his youth in the war and doesn't know where he belongs. Then he encounters the beautiful but schizophrenic Isabelle...