The lives of various desperate people intersect at the Hotel Berlin, a hotbed of Nazi Germany, officers, spies and ordinary Germans trying to weather the inevitable defeat. Martin Richter, a leader of the German underground who has escaped from Dachau concentration camp, is hiding there, aided by some of the staff. He is hunted by Joachim Helm, who has his headquarters in the same building. Another hotel guest is Nobel Prize Johannes Koenig, Richter's friend from before the war and in Dachau.