خلاصه داستان : ریتا پس از یک بیماری، به روستای دوران کودکی خود بازمی گردد.در سال 1961 و طی روند درمان، او خاطرات دو سال گذشته و عشقش به یک شیمی دان را که ده سال از او بزرگتر است را به یاد می آورد.

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him …

خلاصه داستان : مردم در سال 1950 در آلمان به یک معدن اورانیوم تحت کنترل شوروی اعزام می شوند.

A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.