The film was considered lost until 1978, when it was discovered to have been owned by an Italian priest who organized screenings in mental hospitals.

“Devil's Field” is a cursed place, that scares the entire population of a small village of Silesia, because an ancestor of the family Rudenburg perished there victim of a mysterious explosion while digging a well in search of a buried treasure.

Meanwhile, his wife, desperate with his obsession with Devil's Field, sells the cursed land to Peter for twelve thousand marks.

To avenge herself, Gerda sets fire to the rig that was installed on Devil's Field and dies in the ensuing explosion.

Finally aware of the misfortunes he has caused, and of the vanity of his ambitions, Johannes returns to the farm where his brother and Maria, a country girl in love with him, had always been waiting for him.