Literary adaptation based on the novel of the same name by Max Frisch. The American James White is arrested in Switzerland because the authorities believe him to be the sculptor sculptor Anatol Stiller, who disappeared years ago. White, however, persistently asserts: "I am not Stiller!" But the more the mysterious James White and Stiller's wife Julika get closer in the course of the investigation, the more the question of the true identity of the about the true identity of the mysterious American. (FFF)