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Post-war Germany: Like so many other women, Gerda Krause has lost her husband during the war and has to fend for herself and her two children. She finds work as a seamstress but refuses the offering of her department chief Zimmermann to upgrade her qualifications. One day she meets Uschi, an old friend of hers, whom she has helped with schoolwork before the war and subsequently lost track of. The reunion reminds Gerda of her childhood dream: to become a teacher. Thus, she decides to enroll at university to make her dream come true.

• Joachim KunertDirector
• Berta WaterstradtWriter

• Erika Müller-FürstenauGerda Krause
• Christoph EngelBernd
• Rolf MoebiusWerner Schneider
• Erich MirekZimmermann
• Horst NaumannKlaus
• Magdalene von NußbaumMother Becker
• Erika DunkelmannHanna - Gerda's colleague
• Ellen PlessowTrümmerfrau
• Elfriede GardenJutta, Gerda's girlfriend
• Hans-Joachim MartensJürgen
• Gertrud BrendlerMiss Grethmann
• Margit SchaumäkerGrete, Gerda's colleague