Bettina (Maria Perschy), the daughter of a friend comes to study in Berlin and will stay at Boyd.

In the commotion, a story that has to go out to a Paris newspaper is not prepared, and Boyd, after listening to a tale from his chauffeur Jupp (Gert Fröbe), in the last minute makes up a story of five German soldiers who have lived in a supply bunker in Poland for six years where they had gotten trapped when it was exploded at the end of the war.

Bachmann who initially thought that Boyd had reliable sources for his story, soon recognizes that it is all a big lie.

The black-and-white movie features Horst Buchholz who was already a star at this time and dubbed the German James Dean.

It also brought wider attention to Maria Perschy, and all three actors would soon move on to go to a Hollywood career before they would return to Europe.