Europa plot
"World War II had finished, but it left indelible marks."
Film about a naive American young man of German descent who thinks he can help with the reconstruction in post-war Frankfurt. The story is set in post-World War II Germany. The young American Leo Kessler gets a job as a conductor on a night train of the German railway company Zentropa. Leo is driven by idealism and the will to help a country in moral and psychological distress. His figure contrasts with the unyielding people in his new environment. During his journey he comes into contact with the beautiful German Katharina Hartmann, the daughter of Zentropa's director. After Leo and Katharina's marriage, he is accepted into her family and the naive and virtuous Leo becomes entangled in a web of intrigue.