From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.

The unsuccessful artist struggles to feed his young family. He takes on a job painting the daughter of an widowed art dealer. What he doesn't know, is that the art dealer desires his wife. The artist himself falls in love with the art dealer's daughter.

Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.