Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours they have to waste in the city, Pierre is seized by the memory of a young German girl, Maria, whom he had known and probably loved when he was a prisoner of war in the bombed-out port of Hamburg. He abandons his companions in search of her, but is unable to trace her, her house having been destroyed and the search services having no record of her.
Hildegard Knef
Maria
Daniel Gélin
Pierre
Jean Lefebvre
Georges
Daniel Sorano
Jean-Marie
Frédéric O'Brady
Barkeeper
Almuth Bock
N.A.
Reinhold Nietschmann
Günther Jerschke
Reiner Brönneke
Pimp at Bar
Kurt Klopsch
Julius, the Cabaret Owner
Bob Iller
Patron Sponging the Wrestling Winner
Joachim Rake
Karl Friedrich Feudell
Hans Hessling
Günther Jerschke
Heindrick
