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

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.