The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth is a young - middle aged aristocratic woman, that is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her. A strange ambivalent relationship develops between the two women.

Dorothea Wieck
as Elisabeth, Gutsherrin von Salis

Hertha Thiele
as Anna, Bauernmädchen

Mathias Wieman
as Mathias Testa

Maria Wanck
as Margarete, Elisabeths Schwester

Carl Ballhaus
as Martin

Willy Kaiser-Heyl
as Pfarrer

Roma Bahn
as Mary Lane

Dorothea Thiess
as Annas Mutter

Carl Wery
as Annas Vater

Karl Platen
as Dorfarzt