Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: from provocations in the Augsburg of the First World War, to the early poetic and amorous height flights in Munich and Berlin in the 1920s, his escape from Hitler and US exile, followed by his later years caught in a dilemma between timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an inflexible free man and a compromised Artist.

福瑞德（蒂尔·施威格 Til Schweiger 饰）深深的爱上了坚强的单亲妈妈玛拉（亚历山德拉·玛丽亚·拉娜 Alexandra Maria Lara 饰），一心想要和她携手步入婚姻的殿堂，给她第二次的幸福。可惜的是，玛拉的儿子林睿斯似乎并不喜欢福瑞德。为了能够讨林睿斯的欢心，福瑞德决定帮他弄到他最喜欢的球星签过名的篮球。
想要这样的篮球可不简单，为了达成目的，福瑞德不择手段，他伪装成了一位残疾人，获得了入座残疾人专座的资格，并且最终顺利的拿到了篮球。然而，让福瑞德没有想到的是，自己的这一举动让他成为了媒体报道的焦点，更糟的是，这些媒体甚至将摄像机伸进了福瑞德的私生活中去。

2014 television film directed by Harald Sicheritz