Elsa Rassbach

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training contracts of 18 students. While Director Heinz Rathsack dictates to his secretary Helene Schwarz the letter lifting the ban from the premises against 18 students, the students plan a general assembly inside the dffb despite the ban.

A female student laments the role of women in the student movement. Her boyfriend fears that she might soon reject socialism and turn into a feminist. He reaches for the book in which Lenin's position on women's issues is presented in the most detail, Clara Zetkin's "Memories of Lenin".