A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day.

From one day to the next, Anna, a millionaire's wife from Hamburg, is left with nothing: her husband has absconded with a fraudulent loan and a young mistress. Anna returns to Vienna, where a wealthy friend leaves her her fruit stall at the famous Naschmarkt. However, the sleazy Charly also has his eye on the property. Only Bernhard, a former chamber singer, sticks by Anna, but he too is on Charly's payroll.