Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is a pubertal rebel and hopelessly in love with local Maren Grothe. After he picks a fight at the village fair with her flirt and storms off, Maren s found comatose under the watchtower. Missing, Matthias is the only suspect, making the clerical family generally mistrusted. Karin finds her son, whose innocence she believes, apprenticing carpentry on the island where his buddy loves with his father Volkmann. Matthias explains he ran having seen his father Oskar refused ending an affair with Maren, who jumped as suicide attempt. The Brendels consider the due consequences.
Thekla Carola Wied
as Karin Brendel
Walter Kreye
as Oskar Brendel
Ludwig Blochberger
as Matthias Brendel
Mira Bartuschek
as Maren Grothe
Ulrich Bähnk
as Polizist Fred Keller
Vincent Doddema
as Leo Volkmann
Patrick Dreikauss
as Jens
Paul Faßnacht
as Dr. Rolf Brunner
Luise Helm
as Verena Kamp
Jochen Horst
as Gero Volkmann
Imogen Kogge
as Doris Grothe
Martin Seifert
as Heinz Sauer
