Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.
Katharina Wackernagel
as Elke Richter
Peter Schneider
as Gregor Pohl
Katharina Spiering
as Juliane Richter
Matthias Walter
as Helmut Richter
Sebastian Nakajew
as Frank Hartung
Bettina Kenney
as Young Lover (voice)
Tilmar Kuhn
as Grenzer
Robin Meisner
as Junger Tscheche
Robert Mika
as Kellner
Maximilian Nowka
as Zollbeamter
David Nádvornik
as Passant
Almut Queitsch
as Hotelangestellte
