Anita is a young German Jewish woman from the GDR who arrives in West Berlin to set out on a new life. Weaving her way through a tempting capitalist society for the first time in her life, she quickly falls under the influence of the West’s consumerism and its desire for instant gratification. 

Before Wenders, Herzog, and Fassbinder, there was Alexander Kluge—antagonizing dominant orders, throwing Molotov cocktails at filmmaking convention. Glinting like shards of broken glass, the techniques that dazzle across this insubordinate debut announced a new kind of national cinema.