Following a nervous breakdown, Rita Seidel returns to the village of her childhood. She has been told to get some proper rest. She wants to regain her strength and uses this period of convalescence to mull over her past.

Moody, modernist, and highly provocative for its time, Konrad Wolf’s East German masterpiece follows two lovers in an ideologically divided Berlin. Full of fast cuts and sharp angles, this scandalous adaptation of Christa Wolf’s ’60s novella is an iconic gem in the canon of East German cinema.