A play of the bourgeois theatre with a classical dramatic structure, a theme clearly political and a vivid sketching of the class battles. Louisa Miller, daughter of a poor good teacher of music, and Ferdinand, son of Von Walter, president of the city, love each other passionately. The two young people believe that the difference of their social origin is possible to be softened and disappear with the weapon of their love. However, the father of Ferdinand, with the help of his secretary Worm makes up every intrigue and inhuman method so as to undermine the love of the two young people. Ferdinand impregnated with the ideology of Romantism of the time, he will not succumb in his father's plans and in a desperate act of heroic pessimism will drug Louise down to suicide. This tragic act was for Schiller a cry for protest towards the despotism, the oppression of human rights and the methods of imposition of violence, which dominated in his time.