Der Ungebetene Gast plot
The German couple Anna and Robert Zodinger are on the run from the Nazis in Germany and the two are able to emigrate to Switzerland. For the former editor-in-chief Zodinger, extradition to Germany and imprisonment in a concentration camp would mean certain death. The old weaver Stutz protects both, even from the hostile attitude of his own son-in-law Hilber. Hilber, who is in trouble with his weaving mill, wants to do business with Nazi Germany and can therefore not use emigrants under his roof.