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.

Lina is a hard-saving prostitute who won't say why she tried to bump off her lover. Neither he will. Lina shoots her lover Guy Anquetil while he is waiting on an underground station with his glrliend Paulette Havelot. The shot merely wounds Guy, but Lisa's second aim kills Paulette as she rushes to his aid. When Lina is brought to trial for Paulette's murder, Maitre Savel defending her, is puzzled by the silence of his client. If she won't justify her actions then he must.