亚伯兰是一个年轻的工程师，在外漂泊20年后，回到了家乡，陪伴住在巴伐利亚乡村的母亲一起生活。不久，出现了八卦传言：说亚伯兰曾进过监狱，因为他是同性恋，而且是与一位年轻的弱智儿发生性关系。当这些开始的笑料和奸诈的言论变成一种迫害时，亚伯兰想逃离，但为时已晚...

ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus: quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different': a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.