Berlin Alexanderplatz

Part 1 introduces Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht), a man who vows to go straight after serving four years in prison for the beating death of his prostitute girlfriend.

In Part 2, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) searches for work---and gets a job selling a Nazi newspaper.

Our hero Franz Biberkopf tries to live from selling shoelaces going from door to door. Here he accidentally runs into his old lover Eva, which makes him so overwhelmed that he runs to the nearest flower shop and says something along the lines of: "I want to buy flowers that should express that the past just keeps following you; and days go by driving you on and on to a place where there is no future." [Or as paraphrased by Laurie Anderson: "Days go by Endlessly. And they just keep going by endlessly; Endlessly pulling you Into the future."] And the florist answers: "White Lillies" - the flower of death. And instead, Frantz buys red roses - and walks to another woman he has met along the route.

Part 4. Retreating into solitude, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) spends his days in a boarding house.

In Part 5, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) is befriended by the leader of a gang of thieves.

Franz is the accomplice in a heist and ends up injured after an accident during the getaway.

Part 7. A recovering Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) refuses help from Bruno.

Part 8. Franz is dismayed to make a startling discovery about Sonia.

Part 9. Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) reconciles with Mieze, and talks politics with a new acquaintance.

Mieze reveals she can't have children to Franz, and when Eva tells her she will have a child with Franz that Mieze can then raise, the trio's dynamics shift and reveals further darkness.

In Part 11, Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) gets involved with a gang that steals clothes from a warehouse.

Part 12. Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) introduces Mieze to his cafe friends, where a chance meeting with Reinhold leads to tragic consequences.

The exterior and the inside and the mystery of the fear of the mystery.

Conclusion. Reality gives way to a dream, in which Franz (Gunter Lamprecht) is haunted by visions of those who have both loved and betrayed him.