As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman poisons herself in order to join him and is met by Death, who gives her three opportunities to prove that love is stronger than death, thereby freeing her beloved from his fate.

Lil Dagover
as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien

Walter Janssen
as Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang

Bernhard Goetzke
as Death / El Mot / Archer

Hans Sternberg
as Mayor

Karl Rückert
as Reverend

Max Adalbert
as Notary / Chancellor

Wilhelm Diegelmann
as Doctor

Erich Pabst
as Teacher

Karl Platen
as Pharmacist

Hermann Picha
as Taylor