铁匠马卡斯爱好和平,一直拒绝在竞技场战斗来赚取巨额金钱……直到他妻子因缺乏医疗而死去。角斗士的生活让他变得粗鲁,而不正当的组织让他成为庞贝城的首富,当耶稣探访Judaea时,他认识了马卡斯儿子Flavius,后者性格温文,就像象马卡斯以前一样。他们父子二人意见大大不同……而他们的冲突因维苏威火山爆发而中断。。Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn't want to, so they share Susanne's apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.
Summary written by Cinemator。