A middle-class, married woman, Mrs. Kessler, whose husband has been suicidal after losing his job, prostitutes herself once to get the family out of financial straits. The husband finds out about it and divorces her. When he threatens to take away her beloved son, she shoots him. He survives but she is prosecuted.

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Cast

Grete Mosheim

Heda Keßler

Oskar Homolka

Robert Keßler

Camilla Horn

Vera

Johannes Riemann

Konsul Nehrungen

Hilde Hildebrand

Lissy

Bernhard Goetzke

Staatsanwalt

Rosa Valetti

Frau Wronskaja