聲譽日隆的醫生與妻子漸行漸遠，繼而戀上了跳舞女郎，和她搬到鄉下雙宿雙棲。兩人遇上失明的畫家，醫生治好了畫家的雙眼，而女郎則愛上了復明的畫家，直至畫家的眼睛再度失明……北海岸邊對比強烈的光影，襯托着生死愛戀的掙扎。茂瑙不斷反覆講述的三角戀愛和良心角力故事，在他這部最早的傳世作品中已經可見。改編自丹麥劇作家夏里亞‧布洛的作品《勝利者》。

Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.