Directed by Konrad Wolf. With Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Hilmar Thate. After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village. It is 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; his enthusiasm about his new chemical process, which turned to bitter disappointment in the face of rejection; his escape to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built; and his hope that she would follow him. This…