When Isa provokes the Nazis with a satirical song at her graduation party, she is denied her degree despite passing her exams. She has to give up her plan to become a teacher and, against her mother Petra's wishes, manages to perform in a political cabaret. She enjoys stage success as a singer with an accordion and falls in love with the pianist Laurenz. During the Second World War, Isa's family gets caught up in the wheels of political power and is torn apart - until, after much turbulence, the Vermehrens regain their old cohesion and accompany Isa together as she enters a convent in Bonn.
Nadja Uhl
as Isa Vermehren
Iris Berben
as Petra Vermehren
Max von Thun
as Erich Vermehren
Friedrich von Thun
as Kurt Vermehren
Alexander Khuon
as Michael Vermehren
Peri Baumeister
as Elisabeth von Plettenberg
Hinnerk Schönemann
as Laurenz
Jürgen Tarrach
as Werner Roth
Thomas Thieme
as Schadeck
Albrecht Ganskopf
as SS - Mann
Alexander Grünberg
as SS-Mann
Jürgen Haug
as Schmitt
