The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults' irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children's future.
When Franz presides over the German League, Bismatrck arrives late with a great Dane, a statue of the emperor it urinated on and the claim that his Prussian king should take over the presidency. Franz feels that’s a casus belli, bu…