17-year-old Edith is celebrating at her friend's house in Zurich when she is dragged to a nightclub by the unscrupulous seducer Jean, who gets her drunk and abuses her. When she becomes pregnant, she asks her father, who is a gynecologist, to perform an abortion. He initially refuses, but eventually agrees to perform the procedure—with fatal consequences.

• Gotthard Film
• Leopold Biberti
• Marina Rainer
• Fritz Schulz
• Margarete Fries
• Rita Liechti
• Maria Becker
• Lukas Ammann