Hard, harder, Eismayer! The bossy Vice Lieutenant Charles Eismayer is considered the most feared instructor in the Austrian army. And he is gay - only no one is allowed to know that. A love affair with a man is incompatible with his ideas of what a real soldier should be like. But when the handsome and openly gay recruit Mario lands in his troop, Eismayer's strict world of thought is shaken. Will he remain true to his image of the callous macho man - or follow the call of his heart?