The tranquil family life of a police officer is disrupted when a colleague on duty goes berserk and expects him to make a false statement. A question of conscience? But how does one live with a guilty conscience if one violates the unwritten laws of the police?
Computer expert Silvia Berger suffers from severe amnesia: she neither knows her true identity nor can she remember the past. She is tormented by terrible nightmares. Against the wishes of her psychoanalyst, she researches her past. Using a computer, she finds her home town: a small island in the...
The Torbergs' life follows an orderly course, defined by bourgeois convention. Per-Olof, the son, opposes his father's authoritarianism, and their daughter Monika, the sculptor, has moved out of the family home. However, this has not prompted Mr. Torberg to question the familiar order. One day,...
The landowner Klapproth would love to have his nephew Alfred, whom he promises to support financially to set up a business, show him the inside of an insane asylum and experience real lunatics. Alfred's friend Ernst Kissling recommends that he show his uncle the Pension Schöller, whose guests are...
