Rico dono de jornal Dr. Schön casa com a bela e amoral dançarina Lulu. Em uma crise de ciúme, se atraca com Lulu e, durante a briga, uma arma dispara, matando-o. Condenada pelo crime, Lulu foge com o filho do marido morto, Alwa, também apaixonado por ela.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.

In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.