Hansi Bruckner is the owner of a riding stable in the Austrian Alps. His wife, who used to work as a doctor at a local orphanage, and who had left him after the death of their child, is now returning home and they want to try to overcome their differences and come to terms with past events.

East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).