Die Blechtrommel plot
"A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos."
Danzig, 1924. Little Oskar has been a strange fellow from birth. He would rather not have been born because he doesn't like the world at all. Still, he longs to turn three as soon as possible. Then his mother gives him a tin drum. On that day Oskar decides to stop growing and falls down a flight of stairs. Oskar indeed remains small and with his drum and his high-pitched voice - with which he can break glass - disrupts the lives of adults. Through his wide, anxious children's eyes, we follow the rise of National Socialism and the catastrophe of the war.