A crafy, career thief, Phillip, double crosses his partner, Kurt, after a yacht robbery and flees to a small island where he strikes of a friendship with Maria, the owner of a local cantina.

Am grünen Strand der Spree was a five-part German television movie which first aired in 1960. It was based on a novel by Hans Scholz and has been called a Straßenfeger in German, a television program that was watched by so many, the streets were empty. It was produced by German broadcaster Nord- und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband in Cologne, Germany.