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.