Lawyer Joachim Vernau has arrived at the top of Berlin society. Soon he marries into the influential family of Zernikows. But the visit of an old woman changes everything. A former nanny claims compensation in a Russian form from Zernikows' for the time she worked with them. Shortly thereafter, the bearer of the letter - the old woman found dead ...

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