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.
Erika Müller-Fürstenau
Christoph Engel
Rolf Moebius
Erich Mirek
Horst Naumann
Magdalene von Nußbaum
Erika Dunkelmann
Ellen Plessow
Elfriede Garden
Hans-Joachim Martens
Gertrud Brendler
Margit Schaumäker
Wolfgang Hübner
Anneliese Grummt
Waldemar Jacobi
Karl-Heinz Weiss
Bruno Atlas-Eising
Günther Ballier
Rolf Bergmann
Karl Block
Trude Brentina
Grete Carlsohn
Jeanette Decker
Hermann Dieckhoff
Hans Hildebrandt
Maika Joseph
Gudrun Jost
Hans Kammer
Dieter Kleinschmidt
Elke Mantey
Christa Mattner
Roswitha Otto
Martin Rensky
Herbert Schmidt
Rolf Trippler