Snotty Boy, then, is set in a small village in Lower Austria, with the very significant name of Siegheilkirchen, reminiscent by assonance of Boeheimkirchen, where the cartoonist grew up. World War II has just ended, yet too many still seem to agree with the theories that made this war possible. In the meantime, a woman gives birth to a child, whose name we are never given to know, but who is called Rotzbub (hence the film’s original title), brat. As the years go by, the young protagonist, when he is not at school, works at his parents’ inn and immediately begins to show an extraordinary talent for drawing, first making some caricatures of his religion teacher, then some erotic drawings depicting a young, beautiful woman working in the village butcher’s shop. These drawings are immediately successful, since some of his friends decide to sell them to other people in the village.