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- In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to become a mother but hasn't been able to. Paulines child is born and the two women agree that Anna John will keep the newborn as her own baby. As Pauline is going to move to West Germany, she wants to see her child once again for the last time but Anna John refuses. Pauline panics and kidnaps by mistake the terminally ill kid of the neighbor woman. Meanwhile Anna John instructs her brother Bruno (Curd Jürgens) to get rid of Pauline but Bruno stumbles and kills himself with his own knife before he could find Pauline.
- During the rehearsals for their new play, Robert Jürgensen (Will Quadflieg) and his wife Gisela Ahrens (Heidemarie Hatheyer) recognize their former theater manager Conrad Schroeter (Heinrich George) in the prompt box as the new prompter. Jürgensen once ruthlessly seduced Schroeter's only daughter Inge, even though he already was bound to Gisela, who yet was pregnant at that time. In great desperation Inge committed suicide. In the midst of a performance with Jürgensen, Schroeter was informed about the death of his child. Horrified, he attacked Jürgensen and accused him for murder. Schroeter then was committed into a mental clinic. Now, Robert and Gisela are afraid, if Schroeter can handle the new re-encounter.
- Jule (Heidemarie Hatheyer), a 25 year old women is not having an easy life. Her cousin Stefan Rüdiger (Albert Matterstock) has left "manor Jobshagen" as an 18 year old and Jule has had to manage business since then. Her uncle, Stefan's father, never could get over the leaving of his son and isolated himself from the world. Jule, once a blithe youngster, became a tough woman by the time. And there are heavy debts on the manor Jobshagen, 6000 Marks. The innkeeper Meyer could give Jule the money, but he wants a big part of the estates of manor Jobshagen for exchange and that is the last thing that Jule would accept.
- Dr. Danwitz (Karlheinz Böhm) and Dr. Hauser are assistant doctors at a hospital and they are not getting paid for their work, like it was usual in the Fifties of post-war Germany. While Dr. Danwitz' wife Edith (Marianne Koch) is working part- time as a model to bring home some money, Dr. Hauser has to drive a taxi at night for his living. When Edith' superior Mrs. Hambach (Heidemarie Hatheyer) finds out that she is pregnant, she doesn't want to have the child, because her husband is stepping out on her for so many times. After all Edith finds out that she is pregnant herself and she tells Mrs. Hambach that she can't go on working as a model, although there won't be any income for the Danwitzes anymore. Mrs. Hambach, very desperate, takes the chance and offers Dr. Danwitz and Dr. Hauser a very large amount of money for giving her an illegal abortion. But then something terrible happens.
- The divorced opera singer Peter (Harald Paulsen) wants to win back his ex-wife Vilma (Lizzi Waldmüller), also an opera singer. He offers her a false engagement for an opera in Venice. He finds a helping hand in the young Annemarie (Heidemarie Hatheyer) a secretary. Annemarie is supposed to distract Vilma's new fiancee Nikolaus (Hans Nielsen) and she really succeeds, cause he is falling in love with her. Peter, now can concentrate on winning back Vilma.
- A Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Borchert) is living. His marriage with the proud Salvör (Heidemarie Hatheyer) is going to be impend. While on the sea in a storm, he is being cast upon an island. There he falls in love with the farmer's girl Maria (Ingrid Andree). When Haldor learns, that Maria is pregnant, he takes her with him back home. Salvör who was still waiting, hates him for that and marries a rich merchant. Twenty years later Haldor's daughter Gunna and Salvör's son Ragnar, are falling in love with each other. And only now Haldor learns from Salvör that Ragnar is his son.
- Frau Sixta (Franziska Kinz) lives in the Austrian alps, near to the italian border and is head of a post station. After her man died she also has to take care of the farm. One day a stranger arrives with the stagecoach. Markus (Gustav Fröhlich) is a retired major, who wants to start a new life in Italy. Frau Sixta persuades him to stay and manage the farm and they begin having an affair. After some time, Frau Sixtas daughter Otti (Ilse Werner) comes home from boarding school and soon she and Markus fell in love with each other. Heavy-heartedly Frau Sixta gets Markus and Otti in a coach and let them leave for Italy.
- Herr Hudetz (Gerhard Riedmann), the railwayman of a small village, not treated well by destiny, causes a very bad train crash by accident while flirting with the young woman Anna (Johanna Matz).In court Anna commits perjury and can save Hudetz from prison and the two become lovers and marry each other. But they don't have a happy life, because his bad conscience is still tormenting him over the years. So he makes a decision .
- During the Salzburg Festival a drug-addicted ballerina tries everything to get some morphine in her hands. She put her moves on a young pharmacist, Hans Falkner (O.W. Fischer) and almost ruins his marriage with his wife Anna (Heidemarie Hatheyer). A doctor advises the ballerina to join a rehab and yet hands her a prescription for morphine, but accidentally prescribes a lethal dose. Subsequently, Anna Falkner, who gets the prescription, is lead into temptation to get rid of her hatred competitor. Evetually, morality wins and Anna mixes the morphine in the right dose.
- The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene (Heidemarie Hatheyer) are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.
- When vagabond Silo is seriously stabbed he is nursed by Maria in her village. They are attracted to each other, but Maria is married. Then her husband Alexander is found dead in the river, and Silo is suspected of murder.
- In 1945, in the last days of WW II, while on the run, young Anna (Heidemarie Hatheyer) loses her two year old son. Three years later she gets a job as a female worker on the manor of the von Birkhausen's. There she founds again her presumed dead son as the adoptive child of the von Birkhausen's. Through the years he became accustomed to the situation and to his new parents. But Anna fights for her child and and finally kidnaps the boy to Hamburg. After a while she begins to doubt if the boy really belongs to her after all the years of separation.
- Painter rookie Pamela plans to work in advertising but established artist Alwin falls for her and urges her to hone her craft. He guides her to fragile success, she detests being dependent on him and tries to succeed on her own.