Beware of Pity

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