Mafgdalena has private reasons for destructing Dieter Striebeck. Reasons that come from the deepest of her past -and which she has done her best to forget. Magdalena kills a man she believes to have been guilty of murdering her baby daughter years earlier when the Nazis wiped out the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice.

Louis strangles his wife after she prevents him from becoming a champion cyclist.

A woman's attempt to keep her brother from marrying results in his being stabbed to death.

Justine finds that her husband has a mistress.

Concert conductor Olivier Bressel retires exhausted to his dressing room after a charity concert, refusing to meet officials or attend a reception. But when he goes into the shower, he finds there a young woman with a gun. She tells him to dismiss his dresser and manager, but when they return later it is the girl who is found dead and Bressel's fingerprints are on the gun. Olivier Bressel is found in a room with his fingerprints all over a gun and the body of a dead woman at his feet. Did he either really commit a murder or he was framed?

A brave Partisan woman named Celestina during the Spanish civil war, comes back home to find her husband cavorting with his mistress.

Camille must go on trial for the murder of her lover who was about to marry someone else.