The Pier

After completing a project a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle He leaves behind his wife a woman of virtue and responsibility as he goes off on his amorous drunken escapades He is part of a lost generation whose economic and vocational prospects have been severely limited in the decades following World War II His summer cabin on the Baltic beach is torn apart by drunken revelers to feed a bonfire in this brooding and often depressing film