A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge.

Bernhard Wicki
Michael Mansfeld
Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
Manfred Gregor
Folker Bohnet
Fritz Wepper
Michael Hinz
Frank Glaubrecht
Karl Michael Balzer
Volker Lechtenbrink