As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman poisons herself in order to join him and is met by Death, who gives her three opportunities to prove that love is stronger than death, thereby freeing her beloved from his fate.

• Decla-Bioscop
• Lil Dagover
• Walter Janssen
• Bernhard Goetzke
• Hans Sternberg
• Karl Rückert
• Max Adalbert
• Wilhelm Diegelmann
• Erich Pabst