Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband...
as Paul Kahr
as Ina Kahr
as Dr. Pleyer
as Jenny
as Vater Stoll
as Cora Brink
as Margit Kahr
as Marianne von Degenhardt
as Wärterin Stuckmann
as Helga Barnholm