Österricheische Wochenschau und Filmproduktion AG

Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure.

In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.

Franz Xaver Silvester Pomeisl travels thru the decades looking for the good old times.