Die Ehe der Maria Braun

A childless married couple - Anna and Gordon - decide to shelter their pregnant girl Malvina. At first, Anna is tormented by terrible attacks of jealousy, she even tries to commit suicide, but in the end she realizes that she wants to become a real mother for the child that Malvina is about to give birth to. When Gordon suddenly dies, this brings the two women closer together and they make plans for the future together, but circumstances are such that it seems that the baby will still have one mother...