In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor 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