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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.
Top Cast
Senta Berger as Ruth Halbfass
Margarethe von Trotta as Doris Vogelsang
Helmut Griem as Franz Vogelsang
Peter Ehrlich as Erich Halbfass
Marian Seidowsky as Francesco
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