Variety

Boss Huller (Emil Jannings) has served ten years in prison for murder and has never told anyone why. When the warden finally asks, he gives up his silence and starts the story from the beginning, with his wife, Frau Huller (Maly Delschaft), at the center of it. E.A. Dupont frames the confession as a man sitting across a desk from his warden, with ten years of quiet behind his words.