Roze Kate is an attractive girl who has fallen in love with Everhard. This drives Everhard's brothers, Jacob and Simon, insane with jealousy. Then their father dies. An uncle tells them that when their mother remarries, they will lose everything of the inheritage their father has left them. Immediately both brothers plan to murder their mother. They succeed, but things take a whole different turn when investigations show up that Everhard is connected to the murder weapon.