Terminally ill, childless widower Wolfram makes an offer to his former colleague Karla: If she agrees to take care of his funeral and gravestone, she will inherit a quarter of his fortune. If she cares for him until his death, she will inherit half, and if she kills him at his request, she will get everything, a nineteenth-century villa included.
Til Greed Does Us Part is about the overwhelming desire for more, which leads even a humble woman like the former librarian Karla to engage in monkey business.