

On New Year's Eve 1900, Paul Holzgruber started a new praxis as a radiologist. The young Maximiliane Frey is his assistant and they have worked side by side for years helping people. Holzgruber repeatedly points out the dangers of radiation to Maximiliane, but is silent about the ulcers on his hand and the severe pain they have caused. Maximiliane has gotten to know the widower Axel von Bonin and has fallen in love with him. But then she is diagnosed with incurable cancer. To spare Axel the inevitable grief over her impending death, she leaves him and dedicates what is left her life to medicine.
Rolf Truxa
Leopold Welischer

Alfred Neugebauer
Sanitätsrat Wendemuth

Karl Skraup
Herr Welischer

Lotte Lang
Emma Welischer

Ernst Pröckl
Fritz

Gerda Brunner
Mimi von Bonin

Mimi Shorp
Maria

Rosl Dorena
Hilde

Rudolf Brix
Junger Mann

Lotte Martens
Junge Dame

Waltraut Klein
Junge Dame

Karl Ehmann
Geßner, Diener