A young boy from a working class family in post-war Germany struggles with his estranged father returning from war captivity, while a friend of his plays for the German National Soccer Team at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland.
June 27, 1973 in Olten, Switzerland
1941 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]
October 5, 1978 in Bremen, West Germany
October 4, 1981 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
1965 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
14 July 1959, Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany
14 October 1963, Koblenz, Germany
1945 in Le Locle, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
22 January 1962, Niedermarsberg, Marsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1948
16 August 1957, Altena, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
October 15, 1978 in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
20 January 1966, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
21 October 1955, Newark, New Jersey, USA
December 22, 1974 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
July 2, 1943 in Germany
1962, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
20 June 1972, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
January 15, 1979 in Essen, Germany
1967
1959 in Hamburg, Germany
31 August 1976, London, England, UK
18 August 1972, Kassel, Germany

