Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.

In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route, she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.

Barbara of thirteen and George of eighteen have known each other a long time. They are neighbors and get along well. The friendship grows over time a deep love. As yet, however, Barbara is a minor , this relationship in the eyes of the environment reprehensible. After the first time the two have slept in a vacant house together, even feel a few kids, they might see Barbara as fair game and they try to rape her. Even with the parents, there are major problems. Above all, the fathers of the two are enemies for a long time. George's father came with a campaign of the early GDR "workers into the country" in the village, the idealism is now given way to bitterness, however, lethargy, especially given the substantive achievements of Barbara's father (the neighbor). This is mainly interested in money, otherwise blankly until primitive. Finally, a path that has found its opponents, the "comrades" to compromise and shows for George abuse to a minor. Even in school, there is little understanding. The school principal shall initiate disciplinary action, and George's future seems blocked, a study is no longer possible. Only the teacher stands on the porch, first two, and becomes a friend of Barbara. Finally, solidarity and the fellow with the lovers. The film ends with the pronouncement of the sentence against George. There is the contradiction between a meaningful per se, but rigid law (Section 148) And the obviously genuine love of the two received. A final verdict is given in the film is not known, however, the subsequent marriage of the lovers, for George, "a small price" was paid.