Julius Eckhoff

The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa's place at a circus show in Wintergarten, Berlin.

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border smuggler as the perpetrator turns everything around for the better.

A free adaptation of Gottfried Keller's novella "Romeo and Juliet in the Village," which reveals elements of the Nazis' blood-and-soil ideology: Vroni and Friedel, the children of feuding farmers, fall in love. But Vroni is promised to the wealthy innkeeper Paust.