Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn't want to, so they share Susanne's apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.
Summary written by Cinemator。萨兰是含着金汤匙出生的富家少爷,在还是孩子的时候,萨兰就和名为巴拉里的女子订了亲,然而天有不测风云,萨兰家道中落,等到能够成家的年龄时,萨兰的家境早已经不复从前,而巴拉里的家人自然也不再愿意将女儿嫁给他。
玲是巴拉里没有血缘关系的义妹,家中被收养的孩子,心地善良而又单纯的她,愿意代替巴拉里嫁给萨兰,就这样,玲成为了这个素未谋面的男人的新娘。与此同时,萨兰的女友多萨瓦残忍的抛弃了萨兰,让萨兰对爱情失去了希望,玲的出现打破了萨兰内心的枷锁。。