The fact that men leave their wives after a long fulfilling marriage, usually with children, to redefine themselves in the loving arms of a much younger female, is a common phenomenon. „Durst nach Rache“ deals with this kind of devastating drama from the perspective of the deserted older wife and weaves this story into a dramatic, very entertaining TV movie.
The 44year old doctor Susanne Breuer (Gila von Weitershausen) is married to the well known lawyer Peter (Sigmar Solbach). Both of them really love their eight year old son Moritz.(Nicolas Artajo). They all seem to enjoy a happy family life when all of a sudden; the plain and disciplined Susanne gets completely thrown off track by her husband’s steamy affair with her girlfriend and former sister in law Hannelore Stolze (Anja Kruse). Susanne has now only one goal in life: revenge...
When Hannelore is hospitalized, Susanne exchanges her rival’s blood sample for a blood specimen of an HIV positive patient. She informs Peter that Hannelore is infected by the HIV virus. Stressed by fear that he may have contracted the virus himself and out of love for Hannelore, Peter leaves his family. But Hannelore can not handle the news of her alleged disease and tries to commit suicide. Susanne has to admit the truth now or destroy everybody’s live...
