马丁（托马斯·海因茨 Thomas Heinze 饰）是一位非常聪明的年轻人，一次，他夸下海口，声称能够赢过魔鬼，谁知道刚好被路过的魔鬼听到。魔鬼和马丁打了一个赌，没想到马丁居然赢了，魔鬼骗马丁说奖品在地狱，于是，马丁便跟着魔鬼踏上了前往地狱的旅途。
途中，马丁遇见了一对双胞胎姐妹——白之花和黑之花。她们都是魔鬼的女儿，但是个性却大相径庭。魔鬼为了考验马丁，给他出了三道难题。然而，马丁凭借着自己的智慧和白之花给予的帮助一一将它们化解。在此过程中，马丁和白之花之间产生了真挚的感情，两人决定私奔。愤怒的魔鬼带着黑之花一路尾随追杀。

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.