After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him …
Rita Seidel
Manfred Herrfurth
Rolf Meternagel
Wendland
Herr Herrfurth
Frau Herrfurth
Ernst Schwarzenbach
Frau Meternagel
Melcher
Martin Jung
Sigrid
Ermisch
Kuhl
Liebentrau
Mangold
Schwabe
Professor
Dr. Seiffert
Ritas Mutter
Frau Schwarzenbach
Doctor