Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?

三人为帮助陷入债务中的日托中心抢劫了一家银行。沃尔夫被捕，沃纳已被证嫌疑，而警方怀疑克里斯塔是第三人。克里斯塔与沃纳请求汉斯（一位牧师）把钱洗白并捐给日托中心，但被拒绝。接着他们又找到了克里斯塔的朋友英格丽寻求帮助，虽然英格丽竭尽全力却被日托中心拒绝捐助。不幸降临在沃纳头上。汉斯帮克里斯塔偷渡到了葡萄牙一个公社。英格丽的探访使公社里的人们倍感焦虑，于是克里斯塔返回德国并停止躲藏。警方仍到处找她并有一位叫做莱娜的银行职员作证，莱娜的兴趣引发了克里斯塔的第二次觉醒。 (豆瓣字幕翻译2.0小组)