True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
