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 …
| Writing | Konrad Wolf | Screenplay |
| Directing | Konrad Wolf | Director |
| Writing | Gerhard Wolf | Screenplay |
| Writing | Christa Wolf | Novel |
| Writing | Christa Wolf | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kurt Barthel | Screenplay |
| Sound | Hans-Dieter Hosalla | Music |
| Directing | Kurt Barthel | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Willi Brückner | Screenplay |
| Editing | Helga Krause | Editor |
| Camera | Werner Bergmann | Director of Photography |
