WW2 is over. Food is scarce. Martha and her husband Hermann have been together many years and have agreed to ration their bread equally between them. Very early one morning Martha is awoken by a noise and finds her husband in the kitchen. He is startled. On the table is the loaf of bread Martha had tidied away the evening before. To her dismay, she is suspicious that he has cut himself an extra slice and broken their pledge. What happens next has great significance for them both ....