A German emigrant to Australia becomes concerned that his son has been too strongly influenced by the democratic, permissive attitudes of the country and decides to send him back to Germany for military service.

While his son at first resents and resists his new lifestyle, he is eventually converted to the cause of Nazi Germany.

[1] The film was made as a piece of propaganda to support the policies of the Nazi regime.

It was one of a growing number of films of the late 1930s that were disparaging of life in the British Empire on the eve of the Second World War.

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