Light of Heart

To take the wind out of the sails of the sculptor Karl Schwerfeger—who is in the process of modeling her head—Herta pretends that a complete stranger, a young university student, is her boyfriend, and even accompanies him to one of his lectures. The student’s professor is Dr. Faber, an entomologist somewhat detached from the real world, who understands far more about beetles than he does about women. The two fall in love and become engaged, but Dr. Faber is plagued by constant jealousy: he is jealous of Herta’s job as a car salesperson, her customers, his own student, and—most of all—the sculptor Schwerfeger (even though the latter is also working on a bust of the professor himself). Dr. Faber’s housekeeper, Christine, does everything in her power to fuel this jealousy.