Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
| Writing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Theatre Play |
| Directing | Daniel Schmid | Director |
| Writing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Screenplay |
| Camera | Renato Berta | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ila von Hasperg | Editor |
| Sound | Peer Raben | Music |
| Art | Raúl Gimenez | Set Designer |
| Sound | Gottfried Hüngsberg | Music |
| Writing | Daniel Schmid | Screenplay |
| Production | Jordan Bojilov | Producer |
| Production | Michael Fengler | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gera Graf | Costume Design |
| Sound | Gunther Kortwich | Sound |
