A civil war is raging in South Africa. The German businessman Herr Schäfer made a bet on the wrong people, and now he has to flee the country. Another stopover is the farm of one of his partners—there he’ll be safe, and they’ll help him cross the border. But when Schäfer knocks on the door of an old acquaintance, he has no idea what his distant past is hiding behind it—back when he spilled other people’s blood on the fields of the First World War…