In 1914 Berlin, bank heiress Leonore Wahl and struggling Munich student Werner Bertin fall passionately in love, defying class and her parents’ expectations. Their idyll is shattered by the outbreak of WWI: Werner, swept up in patriotic fervor, is conscripted to the Western Front, while Leonore, pregnant and abandoned, faces her family’s condemnation and a clandestine abortion. Set against the tumult of war, the film explores idealism, social divides, and the personal costs of duty and desire.

Jutta Hoffmann
as Leonore Wahl

Klaus Piontek
as Werner Bertin

Inge Keller
as Mathilde Wahl

Fred Düren
as Hugo Wahl

Martin Flörchinger
as Markus Wahl

Thomas Wolff
as David Wahl

Heidemarie Wenzel
as Paula Weber

Erwin Nowiaszak
as Sascha

Zofia Rysiówna
as Frau Kampfeneder

Elsa Grube-Deister
as Frau Pahl