Interesting mostly as a social document just before the coming of Hitler. The woman running a boarding school for high class girls enforces strict discipline in an attempt to build a strong Germany based on Prussian values (which were much despised after the disaster of World War I). Fraulein Von Bernburg (Dorothea Wieck), one of the teachers, believes in treating the students in a more gentle way. This conflict comes to head when a lonely student Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele) falls in love with the teacher. (The lesbian aspect is implied by another teacher's speech but otherwise left unspoken).