Written by Arnold Fanck and Rolf Meyer, the film is a modern-day Robinson Crusoe story about a man so angry about the post-World War I conditions in Weimar Germany that he voluntarily goes to live on a desert island.

[1] During World War I, the German cruiser SMS Dresden is attacked by British ships off the coast of Chile.

After spending three years in custody, the sailors manage to escape and make their way back to Germany, intending to continue fighting for their Fatherland.

Later, when the new SMS Dresden passes the island, he makes his way to the ship and is taken aboard by his new respectful comrades.

[2] It was banned from being shown in Germany by the Allied High Commission after World War II.