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 …
as Rita Seidel
as Manfred Herrfurth
as Rolf Meternagel
as Wendland
as Herr Herrfurth
as Frau Herrfurth
as Ernst Schwarzenbach
as Frau Meternagel
as Melcher
as Martin Jung
as Sigrid
as Ermisch
as Kuhl
as Liebentrau
as Mangold
as Schwabe
as Professor
as Dr. Seiffert
as Ritas Mutter
as Frau Schwarzenbach
as Doctor