Twenty-year-old Netta can't wait to leave Germany and teach in Brighton, England. It's the height of the swinging 60s, but Netta hasn't bargained for the prejudice she'll receive in a country full of anti-German sentiment just twenty years after the war. She finds solace in Billy, the school caretaker, with whom she falls in love. But when she takes him back to Germany at Christmas it's Billy's turn to be on the receiving end of a frosty welcome.