Walter Mosca, hardened by the brutality and desecration of three long years of
war, returns to the USA a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he
knows that he must run back to the land of the enemy, to find the woman who
accepts the rage and cruelty of the world around her. Back in Germany, where the
bitter aftermath of war is everywhere apparent, American cigarettes will buy
almost anything. Against this background the love affair between Mosca and his
girlfriend Hella moves to a savage climax as vivid and violent as any scene in
The Godfather.