During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, fall in love with Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she dressed as a man. Little by little Christine realizes that the man she loves is completely brutalized by the war. When she dates him in place of a peasant fire, she is horrified by his brutality. She shoots him in the duel. Christine is sentenced to death as a man, but acquitted as a woman.—DEFA