[2] Andreas (Hanno Koffler) was physically mistreated by his father from a young age, while his mother (Katy Karrenbauer) sexually molested him for years.

Traumatized by these experiences of violence and rape, he slipped into crime as a young man and earned his money as a brutal pimp.

After an outbreak of violence, Andreas ends up in prison, where he manages to come to terms with his past over the years, also with the help of his faithful girlfriend Marion (Luise Heyer).

The minimalist setting of the film was praised as a successful stylistic device, this "restriction to the essentials characterizes intense atmospheric density [...].

Katy Karrenbauer as a mother shows great courage to face unsympathetic ugliness with full, even naked, physical exertion.