In 1980s East Germany, Berlin doctor Barbara is banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good-natured clinic head, Andre.

Nina Hoss
as Barbara

Ronald Zehrfeld
as André

Rainer Bock
as Klaus Schütz

Christina Hecke
as Assistenzärztin Schulze

Claudia Geisler-Bading
as Stationsschwester Schlösser

Peter Weiss
as Medizinstudent

Carolin Haupt
as Medizinstudentin

Deniz Petzold
as Angelo

Rosa Enskat
as Hausmeisterin Bungert

Jasna Fritzi Bauer
as Stella