Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...

Romy Schneideras Elsa Wiener / Lina Baumstein
Michel Piccolias Max Baumstein
Helmut Griemas Michel Wiener
Dominique Labourieras Charlotte Maupas
Gérard Kleinas Maurice Bouillard
Mathieu Carrièreas Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo
Jacques Martinas Marcel
Wendelin Werneras Young Max Baumstein
Marcel Bozonnetas Mercier
Christiane Cohendyas Helene Nolin