Lieutenant Anton Hofmiller, an\n Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed far from home, is invited to a\n lavish party at the mansion of a rich Hungarian landowner, Lajos. In a world\n of luxurious living far removed from the bare life at the barracks, Anton\n meets Edith, the daughter of the host and spontaneously asks her for a dance.\n When he realizes a sickness has left her crippled for life, deep compassion\n for her overtakes him, leading Edith to fall in love with him. Soon Anton is\n drawn into a vortex of events and emotions quite unforeseen, as pity and\n guilt inexorably implicate him in a well-meaning intention that tragically\n goes wrong.