Ruth is the wife of well-heeled corsetry manufacturer Erich Halbfass. As business booms, Erich lives frivolously and their daughter Aglaia attends school. The bored middle-class wife begins a secret affair with Aglaia's drawing teacher, setting murder and manslaughter in motion.
Senta Berger
Margarethe von Trotta
Helmut Griem
Peter Ehrlich
Marian Seidowsky
