The respective sons in each family, Heinrich Meißner and David Silberstein, discreetly take piano lessons together.

She encounters ridicule from Gestapo officers after she explains her situation, because they think that she is Jewish.

However, after she shows her papers that prove that she is Aryan, they accept her story about Heinrich and assist in searching for him.

The crowd moves aside and Marianne sees a boy she thinks is Heinrich hugging the Silbersteins, but instead it is David.

The nominations of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the 2008 short subjects were announced on 22 January 2009, with Spielzeugland on the list.