Based on Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof, a popular discotheque of the time, the café becomes a stage for Immendorff's comparison of life in the East and the West, with Penck, wearing a cap of ice,
atop a tower displaying East Germany's coat of arms merged with a
tank, and Immendorff, surrounded by signs of nuclear threat,
held in the eagle's clutches.