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 …

Drama, Romance

Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Hilmar Thate, Martin Flörchinger, Erika Pelikowsky