The 17-year-old, musically gifted Stephan is expelled from school for making statements critical of the regime. With his future as a musician now blocked, he commits suicide. His girlfriend Cornelia wants to follow him to his death, but is prevented from doing so by her parents at the last moment.
A young literature student Andreas Alt (Mark Bellinghaus), works as a ghostwriter on the memoirs of a former, now elderly courtesan (Trude Breitschopf). Her granddaughter Josefine (Mia Martin) also lives in the dilapidated house with her. By reading the diary, reality and imagination mix in the...
