sexual act in a degrading clown's costume.

When the Countess meets Toni, a quite ordinary young auto mechanic with ordinary, normal tastes and wholesome outlook on life, they fall in love and meet secretly. The veneer of sophistication fades and Verena becomes once again the wholesome country girl of her youth. However, the Count has two loyal servants: Helene, the housekeeper, and Clemens, his secretary, and Helene learning of a rendezvous the young couple have arranged in the village, informs on them.

Anatol has the young man brought to his villa, there showing him blown-up pornographic photographs of the Countess with various men and women. Toni dashes off, insane with jealousy and disbelief.

When the police discover him dead in a motor accident, it is obviously a suicide, a perfect murder which the law can not punish. Investigation leads to the Count who imperially refers them to Clemens for information they may wish. He himself appears completely detached about the affair.

Verena, unaware of what has happened goes to keep her rendezvous with her lover in the village and finds him dead. Grief-stricken, she is confronted by the shocking Anatol who takes pictures of her in her moments of deep sorrow.

Incapable now of emotion or thought, she allows herself to be led back to the villa by the unfeeling Count where, it is assumed, she will again enter into the life she has been sharing with her depraved husband.