The world bestseller for the first time as Fallada wrote it. Too explosive to be printed in this way: a quarter of the original version of the novel that made Hans Fallada an internationally acclaimed best-selling author on the eve of the Nazis' seizure of power has never been published. The seller Johannes Pinneberg and his girlfriend Lämmchen are expecting a child. The couple decides to marry on the spur of the moment, even if money is getting tighter and tighter. Despite the global economic crisis and the strengthening Nazis, Lammchen courageously takes the life of her desperate husband into her own hands.