Note: Shown without English subtitles; written English synopsis provided. In this tragedy for two actors, a wife, despite her love for her husband, ruins his career, and his honor. The story is constructed around the events of a single day and takes place in the apartment/laboratory of a doctor and scientist, Arne Lundell, and his wife Marianne. (The camera leaves this setting only once, for a flashback.) It is a day of revelations as Arne, accused of a scandal involving theft of scientific material, and then of murder, incredulously follows his fate in the newspapers. Marianne's involvement in the whole affair is unearthed slowly as the day's sorrows progress into night's tragedy.