The young chemist Dr. Martin Schlüter sells himself to the powerful industrialist family Vahlberg, by no means blinded, but rather disgusted by the splendor of the conditions required to advance his scientific invention. He is even ready to sacrifice his great love for his ambitious plans. But when he was supposed to take over the chemical plant of a concentration camp at the beginning of the Second World War, he fled the situation and went to the Eastern Front.
