Berlin in the late phase of the Weimar Republic: Jakob Fabian worked in a small advertising Agency as a Reklametexter for a Zigarettenfirma. He is tolerably satisfied with his life, even if he is financially barely above water can hold, and lives carefree in the day. With his best friend Labude he makes regularly in the Berlin nightlife insecure. His new friend Cornelia, who just come to Berlin, to the movie big to come out, is attractive. But one day the tide turns for the careless, young man: as a Result of the economic crisis in 1927, begins Fabian's life piece by piece out of the joints to get. First he loses his job, then leaves Cornelia him instantly, as it of a producer in an enticing in-house movies. And, finally, Labude because of a terrible mistake the life. The events attract a Fabian the ground under the feet away, he loses as a result of this accumulation of personal tragedies the Grip in a generally troubled by Arbeitslosenheeren and Ausfransungen to the politically extremist edges specified period of time. Fabian is trying to be miserable, numb, in which he uncontrollably amused. He visited dance halls, gets drunk constantly and goes to prostitutes. Here, he stumbles from one adventure to the next, always stopped on a dime on the personal abyss. His goal - and disorientation seems to be his undoing. Fabian decides the 'Juggernaut' of Berlin, which it is not good to do seems to be to leave, and returns to his mother in the province, in his hometown, back. Here, he seems gradually to come to rest. One day, the refined Moralist the Chance to be the hero to be: But when he a little boy from Drowning tried to save, he will be killed. Non-swimmers Fabian drowns, while the Boy down on the shore can save.... (机译)柏林在魏玛共和国的后期阶段：雅各布·法比安曾在一家小广告公司作为Reklametexter的Zigarettenfirma。他还算满意，他的生命，即使他在经济上略高于水抱，和生活在无忧无虑的日子。与他最好的朋友Labude他经常做在柏林的夜生活不安全。他的新朋友科妮莉亚，谁刚刚来到柏林，到电影大出来，是有吸引力的。但是有一天，潮水匝数为粗心，小伙子：由于经济危机的影响，1927年一结果，开始费边的生命一块一块出来的关节得到。 首先，他失去了工作，然后离开因为它在一个诱人的室内电影制片科妮莉亚他瞬间。最后，Labude因为一个可怕的错误的生活。该活动吸引了费边地面下英尺远的地方，他就失去了，因为这积累的个人悲剧的普遍困扰Arbeitslosenheeren和Ausfransungen的政治极端主义的边缘握指定时间段的结果。费边试图就惨了，麻木了，他在其中控制不住逗乐了。他访问了歌舞厅，醉得不断地去卖淫。在这里，他从一个冒险下跌倒，永远停止了对个人的深渊一角钱。 他的目标 - 和定向障碍似乎是他的毁灭。费边决定“剑圣”柏林，这是不好做似乎是离开，并在全省返回到他的母亲，在他的家乡，回来了。在这里，他似乎慢慢来休息。有一天，精道德家有机会成为英雄的，但是，当他从溺水的小男孩试图拯救，他将被杀死。非游泳选手法比安淹没，而男孩倒在岸边可以节省。