Transit

As an illegal immigrant in Paris, Georg Seidler is constantly on the run from the police. By chance, he obtains the papers and a manuscript of the writer Weidel, who had previously committed suicide in his hotel room. Georg seizes the opportunity and smuggles himself onto a goods train to Marseille, together with his injured friend Heinz, who does not survive the journey. After arriving in the French harbor city, Georg delivers the sad news to Heinz's deaf wife, Melissa, and their son Driss, with whom he develops a close relationship. At the Mexican consulate, he hopes for a finder's fee for Weidel's documents, but is mistaken for the writer himself and thus obtains transit visas to Mexico for Weidel and his wife Marie. Georg meets the distraught wife several times, who knows nothing of her husband's suicide and continues to hope for his imminent arrival in Marseille. Unaware of Marie's identity, Georg falls in love with her and offers her one of the visas to Mexico. When Heinz's son Driss falls ill, Georg asks the German doctor Richard, who is having an affair with Marie, for help. Georg finds himself in a state of emotional chaos when he identifies Marie as Weidel's wife, who has not given up hope of seeing her husband again and does not want to leave Europe without him. Can Georg tell her the truth? How would she react, and would she even want to board the ship with him?