Alfred Balthoff

A girl works a series of odd jobs trying to find her fortune in Berlin.

Based on the the true story of a famous acting couple, who, because the wife is Jewish, find themselves at a crossroads in Nazi Germany.

Vera Berg is a career woman. As an attorney with her own law firm, she has her life under control, illusions or unnecessary feelings she does not give herself. One day, however, love makes a point for her: the entrepreneur Bönisch, who was cast as a Casanova, tries to win Vera for herself.

After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery...