Non-commissioned officer Gunther Baneman, cavalier of the Iron Cross, messenger at the headquarters of the tank division in the African Corps of Rommel, having learned that his father was executed in a concentration camp, decided that the war was over for him. And, taking with him the most necessary, he left the camp and headed for the desert. Now everyone became his enemies: the Germans and Italians looking for a deserter, and the British fighting the enemy.