在这部咖喱香肠的诞生剧情片中,二战末期，海军士兵布雷默休假归队途中邂逅了在汉堡粮食局餐厅工作的布绿克太太。一场空袭让两个陌生人走到了一起，布雷默当了逃兵，躲藏在布绿克太太家中，开始了一段充斥着隐秘激情的时光。然而战争突然结束。布绿克太太为了留住比她年轻得多的布雷默，对他暂时封锁了战争结束的消息。可停战的蛛丝马迹却不断地显露出来，布雷默被困于室，越来越失去耐性，后来他终于得知了真相，不辞而别回归自己的家庭，丢下了布绿克太太重新陷入孤独之中。战后的布绿克太太为了谋生，在机缘巧合下发明了咖喱香肠这一美食，其发明过程充满近乎魔幻的荒诞色彩，布雷默和她的过往也是咖喱香肠的诞生不可缺少的一环。
World War II is grinding to a close, and middle-aged Lena Bruecker (Barbara Sukowa) is caught in the fallout of Germany's crushing defeat. Her husband is missing in action on the Eastern Front, her children are all grown and out of touch with her, and each day she has to hand out meager rations to the hungry at an Food Distribution Agency office with her co-worker Holzinger (Wolfgang Boeck). Lena spends her evenings waiting out Allied air attacks and sometimes going to the movies, and one night she happens to meet Hermann Bremer (Alexander Khuon), a German sailor. Hermann is on a short leave and is wary about returning to a dangerous assignment that seems increasingly futile. Lena and Hermann fall in love, and she offers to let him hide in her flat, but Lena's landlord Lammers (Branko Samarovski) is rabidly loyal to the Third Reich and will certainly turn Hermann in to the authorities if he discovers the deserter.
