Der Vermessene Mensch plot
Alexander Hoffmann is determined to carry on the legacy of his father, a pioneering ethnologist. At university he becomes entangled in the maelstrom of the evolutionary race theory of the late 19th century. Hoffmann is disgusted with the measurement of skulls, which has no other purpose than to pseudoscientifically legitimize the superiority of the white race, but he goes along with it. Wanting to find evidence to the contrary, he contacts Kezia Kambazemi, the interpreter of a delegation of Nama and Herero in Berlin who have been forced to participate in a folk performance.