Mertens has another flashback and goes home drunk. After the dinner, Brückner returns to Mertens his gun from the war. He is now a successful businessman, producing pots out of old Stahlhelme, the German military steel helmet. Mertens visits Brückner, his former captain, and stays for dinner. When Mertens returns, Susanne informs him that Brückner is alive and well. Meanwhile, Susanne meets with Ferdinand Brückner (Arno Paulsen). Mertens tries to get a job at a hospital, but a screaming woman gives him flashbacks and he is left incapacitated. Brückner in her apartment and confronts Mertens about it. An artist and Nazi concentration camp survivor, Susanne Wallner (Hildegard Knef), finds him living in her apartment as she returns home.They reluctantly live together at first, then become friends. He suffers from flashbacks of the war and has an aversion to people in pain, which prevents him from practicing medicine. Hans Mertens (Ernst Wilhelm Borchert) stumbles down the street, drunk. Berlin in 1945 after Germany's defeat in the war.
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