1920s Germany. Two sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The World War II impacts each of their lives and finally in old age they meet again.
Sina Richardt
as Anna Bamberg, young
Julia Koopmans
as Lotte Bamberg, young
Thekla Reuten
as Young Lotte
Nadja Uhl
as Young Anna
Ellen Vogel
as Old Lotte
Gudrun Okras
as Old Anna
Betty Schuurman
as Mother Rockanje
Jaap Spijkers
as Father Rockanje
Roman Knižka
as Martin
Margarita Broich
as Martha
Ingo Naujoks
as Uncle Heinrich Bamberg
Barbara Auer
as Charlotte
