A playful comedy about love, money, unconventional entrepreneurship… and the circle of life. Anton Grubske uses a cunning gimmick to get himself out of war captivity in 1945. Using the same maneuver, he escapes from a sly widow. He returns to his home village where he marries the daughter of a local artisan whose shop he takes over and starts ripping off wealthy landowners. When the business goes sour, he runs away with his accomplice Sabina. The pair continues doing shady business and amass quite a fortune. Anton’s misdeeds soon bring him back to where it all started – the prison. But is this the end of him?