Franz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) encountered our cold and silent protagonist Bruno (Ulli Lommel) when the Syndicate adopted every possible mean to force and reason things out for them.

Before bidding farewell, Franz informed Bruno the address of his apartment in Munich, paving the way for the ensuing events of the plot.

Petty hood Franz (Fassbinder) refuses to join the syndicate, where he meets a handsome young thug called Bruno (Lommel) and gives him his address in Munich.

The film is dedicated to "Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Marie Straub, Linio, and Cuncho".

Richard Brody called the film one with "youth and its ardor, its urgency, its irrepressible outpouring of creative energy.