The lady is Mrs. Hilyard, a wealthy poetess who lives in a three-story city mansion and her cage is her elevator, which stops a dozen feet short of the main floor due to an electrical failure on a July 4th weekend. She rings her outside alarm, eventually noticed by a drunken derelict, who breaks into the house, ignores her plight and helps himself to various items and alcohol. He leaves with his loot but returns a while later with a plump prostitute and three teenage hoodlums, who proceed to terrorize Mrs. Hilyard as they wreck her home.
1944: Stella Goldschlag will Jazz-S?ngerin werden und tr?umt von einer Karriere am Broadway. Aber die Nazis beherrschen Deutschland. Und Stella ist Jüdin. Nachdem Stella zusammen mit ihren Eltern untertauchen muss, verwandelt sich ihr Leben in eine schuldhafte Trag?die. Durch einen Verrat wird sie von der Gestapo gefasst, gefoltert und zur ?Greiferin? gemacht: Um sich und ihre ...