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Scenes of Fires

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girl friend Karin Kunze is still a member of this scene. Bruno, who still has left-wing beliefs, becomes her attorney. But when Karin gets into a shootout with the police, she has to go into hiding. The prosecuting attorney Baller has also been a former member of the anarchistic scene. He does not want his past to be revealed by Karin′s apprehension and prosecution. Thus, he asks Kappel to find Karin and sneak her out to a foreign country. On his search for Karin, Kappel meets Maria, a communist, who as a teacher is threatened to be banned from her profession and furthermore is a member of a citizen′s movement that tries to stop the conversion of a nature reserve into a military training ground. Kappel falls in love with Maria and starts to reconsider his political beliefs.

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