In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement of the audience, is found to be the heir to a large fortune. The new owner must learn social behaviour and resist the advances of those who would like to seize his fortune themselves.
A man returns to his native village in search of renewed faith and his old girlfriend. But she, now a middleaged woman, does not recognise him and he goes home, more disillusioned than ever.
