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

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

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.