1920s Germany. Two sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The World War II impacts each of their lives and finally in old age they meet again.
Sina Richardt
Anna Bamberg, young
Julia Koopmans
Lotte Bamberg, young
Thekla Reuten
Young Lotte
Nadja Uhl
Young Anna
Ellen Vogel
Old Lotte
Gudrun Okras
Old Anna
Betty Schuurman
Mother Rockanje
Jaap Spijkers
Father Rockanje
