A Prussian officer (David Bowie) returns home to Berlin following the end of the World War I. Unable to find employment elsewhere, he works as a male prostitution in a brothel run by the Baroness (Marlene Dietrich). He is eventually killed in street fighting between Nazi Party and Communist Party of Germany. Both sides claim his body but the Nazis succeed in capturing it and bury him with honours, "a hero to a cause he did not support".<ref name="The Complete David Bowie">Nicholas Pegg (2000). ''The Complete David Bowie'': pp.539–540</ref>