Young maid slits the wrists of a deaf-mute carter - and squanders his money in Munich. Ulrike Hofmann is an archivist at the Munich State Archives and deals with historical cases.

“Cäzilie Bauer is a woman who wants to live, to go to the café, wear beautiful clothes and have her crooked teeth fixed,” says Hofmann. But this luxury is unaffordable for the maid who grew up in poverty in Wolfratsen.