A treacherous low-level mafioso greedily rips off a shipment of arms from his powerful godfather and tries to sell them to an especially dubious group of Arabs

The starting point of the plot is a Men's club, which serves both as a meeting place as well as an alibi by unfaithful husbands. Interspersed between the sex scenes are reporters' questions on alleged passersby about marital fidelity and infidelity.

The story presents an entertaining as well as revealing portrayal of the moral history of sex in the course of human history.

Die Verwundbaren takes the behaviour patterns in a crowd of 20 to 35-year-olds in Vienna as its theme, broaching the issue of love between men at a time when homosexual acts where a punishable offence (until 1971) in Austria. Tichat can be described as one of the few Austrian directors whose work carries distinctive features of dealing with cinematic modernity, in particular with the nouvelle vague. Die Verwundbaren was to remain Tichat's only feature film.