Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.

Brigitte Mira
as Emma Küsters

Ingrid Caven
as Corinna

Margit Carstensen
as Frau Thälmann

Karlheinz Böhm
as Karl Tillmann

Irm Hermann
as Helene

Gottfried John
as Jörg Niemeyer

Kurt Raab
as Barkeeper Gustav

Peter Kern
as Nachtklubbesitzer

Armin Meier
as Ernst

Matthias Fuchs
as Horst Knab