Erwin Steinhauer

A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.

Through a hidden path, a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is in Sarajevo with his wife, Sophie. While through the city by car, they are victims of an attack and die. This is the trigger of the First World War.

In 1960s Siegheilkirchen, the son of a hard-working innkeeper, called Snotty Boy by all, is at odds with the narrow-minded confines of his hometown. But his talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent.

The moving story of a young boy trying to fulfill his dream in post-war Europe - in the face of all obstacles.