Фильм о прославленном немецком писателе Хансе Фаллада, авторе многих-романов, воссоздающих атмосферу жизни предфашистской Германии. Фаллада, в отличие от многих других литераторов, остался в гитлеровской Германии не эмигрировал, но и не пошел в услужение к нацистам. После победы над фашизмом Рудольф Дитцен (настоящее имя писателя) сотрудничал с советской военной администрацией, был бургомистром одного небольшого городка. В картине воспроизведены последние десять лет жизни писателя, когда он находился в безвестности и нужде, когда его запугивали, арестовывали фашистские власти.
The last decade (1937-47) of the poet Hans Fallada's life. He lives with his family in Carwitz. His craving for harmony collides with the circumstances of the times and his own inner turmoil. He writes already anything of note, drinks and takes pills. His wife Anna sees him through his times of darkest depression, tolerating his overt aggression and his affair with the house maid Anneliese. But once he begins a relationships with the manufacturer's widow Ursula Losch, Anna finally calls for a divorce. His love for the pretty, young Ursula delivers him a new thirst for life, but only for a brief time. She is a morphine addict and pulls him further down into the abyss. The high-times are followed by increasingly deeper low-times. After the end of the war, the Red Army sets him up as a mayor, but Fallada fails at functioning in such an unfamiliar position, numbing himself with more alcohol and morphine. He goes to Berlin, and at the insistence of friends writes in a short time the poem "
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