During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map, accompanied by a slave girl with a mysterious tattoo of an eye on her palm. They encounter strange beasts, tempests, and the dark interference of Koura along the way.

一个金发碧眼天真无邪的11岁小男孩与一群牧羊人周游各地。在其中一个地方，他遇到一个13岁的神秘女孩，他爱上了她，但是女孩想方设法给男孩对她的追求设置障碍。当侵略者到来的时候，一个年龄大点的男孩看上了这个女孩，并玷污了她。 1963年柏林电影节最佳导演奖，银熊奖，及影评人大奖

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.