杰克（阿德里安·布洛迪 Adrien Brody 饰）是一个江湖浪荡子，玩世不恭的他整日游走在法律和道德的边缘，日子过得潇洒又无牵无挂。一次偶然中，他遇见了克莱尔（夏洛特·阿雅娜 Charlotte Ayanna），一位从品行到举止都足以被成为真正的淑女的美丽女子。
就是这样迥然相异的两人，他们相爱了。杰克让克莱尔明白，像他这样的底层人物，看似自在却有着难以言说的悲伤，江湖如此险恶，远不如她所知晓的那般美好，要在这样的社会中生存下去，就必须付出代价。在克莱尔的身上，杰克却看见了正直和美好的品质，她给予他的爱和温柔让他不至于沉堕到底。互相伤害，互相拯救，杰克和克莱尔这对恋人能否走到最后呢？

改编自德国当代著名作家齐格飞-蓝茨（Siegfried Lenz）的中篇小说，讲述一个塞尔维亚女孩只身前往德国汉堡去找她的男友，一路上历尽艰难和冒险的故事。影片获1991年德国电影杰出成就奖提名，同年瑞典乌普萨拉国际电影节最佳影片奖，是Peter Sehr的首部长片。
The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.
In this mild drama, a Serbian girl from Yugoslavia (Mirjana Jokovic) has traveled into Germany with visions of a freer, more romance-filled life. Along the way she encounters all sorts of people who are as unsettled as she and confirms for herself that this cannot be her home, and that her native land -- whatever its faults -- is just the place she really wants to be.
In 1988, Peter Sehr founds PARTISAN Filmproduktion GmbH with Marie Noelle. He writes, produces, and directs 'Und nicht ein Tohuwabohu', a feature documentary. In 1991, he releases his second feature, 'The Serbian Girl' ("Das Serbische Madchen"), nominated for the 1991 German Film Prize (Best Film) and awarded the main prize at the Film Festival of Uppsala.