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.

Leopold Biberti
Docteur Paul Férrat
Marina Rainer
Édith Férrat

Fritz Schulz
Mister Reed
Margarete Fries
Agnes
Rita Liechti
Schwester Cecilie

Maria Becker
Miss Ellen Denny

Lukas Ammann
Sterner
Edmund Heuberger
Stefan Markus
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