The war took away the breadwinners from the Brilah family and the Bach family, and now only photographs remind of happy days. In their empty houses, boys grow up without fathers with such similar and at the same time different destinies: Heinrich, having personally experienced the humiliations of poverty, is ashamed of his mother, who is reputed to be “immoral,” and Martin, who does not know financial difficulties, suspects that in his life, despite all the prosperity, something is missing. And, despite the social gap, their friendship grows stronger day by day...