A husband discovers that his wife has had a lover from the early days of their marriage. He is faced with a painful and agonizing problem: whose are the three girls that he is supposed to have fathered? He will never know because his wife refuses to confess something that could definitively destroy her domestic life. The husband does not have the heart to bear such a future and chooses death instead. But in dying he burdens the guilty with a terrible punishment. Obeying the horrific suggestion of the deceased, the woman strangles one after the other, two of her daughters. When she awakens she believes that this frightful crime is the work of the dead man, whose mutilated hand seems to have left its mark on the victim’s neck. The pain and the fear of the dead man and of the tremendous revenge that hangs over them renders the lover’s lives a painful hell with no way out. To rescue the third child from the danger of death that hangs over her, the lover watches over her day and night, discovering the awful truth. The child is safe but the mother, deranged by events, dies in a fit of hysterics.

Catalogue Pathé