The story of two small-time crooks in the Frankfurt underworld who would like to make it big, but fail time and again.
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre.
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.