Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover in the West, is busy planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. Her new flat, neighbours, summer and the countryside no longer hold any charms for her. Although she is attentive to her young patients under her new boss, André, she is deliberately cool to her colleagues. André confuses her. First there’s his unshakable faith in her professional abilities, then there’s way he cares, and his winning smile. Barbara begins to lose her grip on herself, her plans and her heart.
