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A young woman begs Death to return her lover and receives three chances to prove that love is stronger than death.

In a town, a young couple stops at an inn. A mysterious stranger sits at their table. When the woman leaves the room and returns, her lover has disappeared with the stranger, who is Death. Death has bought a plot beside the cemetery and enclosed it with a high wall without windows or doors. The woman sees ghostly figures pass through the wall, including her lover, and she begs Death to bring him back. Death gives her three chances to prove that love is stronger than death. Lil Dagover plays the young woman, Walter Janssen her lover and Bernhard Goetzke Death; Dagover also plays Zobeide, Mona Fiametta and Tiao Tsien, Janssen Frank, Gianfrancesco and Liang, and Goetzke El Mot and Archer. The anthology sets three further tragic romances in the Middle East, Venice and China.

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