The film takes place during World War II and deals with the love story between the young soldier Willi and the German Sinti Lena. They meet in a German front hospital, where Lena works, after she ran away from a transport to a concentration camp as the single survivor of her family. Willi is wounded when they meet. When Lenas real Identity comes out, they have to flee. But there is a lot of danger on their way out of Germany.