After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally settle down here. The party leadership sends him to the Schepp brigade, which has made itself "suspicious" (on paper) due to its extremely high production figures. The stranger is accused of being a spy for the factory management. Willi finds it difficult to assert himself, but he is taken with the big excavator, the prospect of one day being allowed to drive it, and the brash flapper Hanna. He stays, and with his help a mine foreman is exposed as a Western agent and coal production is brought up to a really high level.
Günther Grabbert
as Willi Palko
Harry Hindemith
as Wilhelm Schepp
Günther Simon
as Parteisekretär Reichert
Helga Göring
as Hanna
Johannes Arpe
as Betriebsleiter Pfefferkorn
Fred Delmare
as Zugfahrer
Christoph Beyertt
as LKW-Fahrer
Frithjof Rüde
as
Rudolf Ulrich
as
Fritz Schlegel
as
Erich Brauer
as
Rudolf Donath
as
