Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.
Eva Mattes
as Helene
Ernst Jacobi
as Hans
Elisabeth Stepanek
as Hanne
Angelika Thomas
as Lydia
Rainer Friedrichsen
as Ulrich
Fritz Lichtenhahn
as Onkel Bertrand
