Horst Tappert plays a high-ranking dignitary in the Vatican who will soon be made a cardinal. But shortly before this goal, a young woman confronts him in the confessional and accuses him of hypocrisy. She reveals that she is his daughter, whose existence he did not know. Now he is faced with a choice: if he commits to her, he risks his appointment; If he denies her, he loses the only person who is close to him.

Cast

Horst Tappert

Clemens Roetger

Christine Reinhart

Ariane

Massimo Girotti

Donato

Walter Kreye

Bernheim

Christiane Blumhoff

Housekeeper

Thomas Darchinger

Pastor

Tobias Langhoff

Bishop's secretary

Wilhelm Manske

Erich Kesselbaum