An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.
Two women jilted by their veterinary-assistant lover take excruciating revenge.