The plot follows the life of the Jewish doctor, sexologist, and gay socialist Magnus Hirschfeld.

[1][2] Magnus Hirschfeld made a name for himself as a co-founder of sexology and a founder of the first gay rights organization in 1897.

The German magazine Spiegel wrote: "Rapid rise and early suffering, political furor and private disaster, told in a pleasingly conventional way against the political background of the Weimar Republic - a cinematic poetry album of upright feelings.

(Ralf Dose)[5] "And the Nazis had really managed to make Hirschfeld almost forgotten for a long time.

Until Rosa von Praunheim shot his film The Einstein of Sex about him in 1999 – and thus rescued him from oblivion."