Josef Stief, wegen vierfachen Frauenmordes in der “Verwahranstalt für kriminelle Geisteskranke”, bricht aus, flieht durchs Moor und wird am Neusiedlersee von einer Schilfbauernfamilie aufgenommen. Tochter Kathrin glaubt, er wäre ihr an der Grenze zu Ungarn verschollener Mann Martin. Stief, der sein Gedächtnis verloren hat, erkennt sich auf einem Fahndungsplakat wieder, gerät in Panik, flieht zu Kathrin, kann sich gerade noch abhalten, sie zu töten, wird von den Bauern durchs Moor gejagt, entkommt dem Lynchmob und ... 

Josef Stief, imprisoned in an "Asylum for the Criminally Insane" after having murdered four women, breaks out of his cell, flees through the moor and is taken in by a reed farming family on the Neusiedlersee in Austria.  The daughter, Kathrin, believes he might be her husband Martin, who disappeared one day at the Hungarian border.  Stief, who's lost his memory, recognizes himself on a wanted poster; panics; flees to Kathrin; loses his self-control; tries to kill her; is chased through the moor by a lynch mob; and ... 

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