Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is a pubertal rebel and hopelessly in love with local Maren Grothe. After he picks a fight at the village fair with her flirt and storms off, Maren s found comatose under the watchtower. Missing, Matthias is the only suspect, making the clerical family generally mistrusted. Karin finds her son, whose innocence she believes, apprenticing carpentry on the island where his buddy loves with his father Volkmann. Matthias explains he ran having seen his father Oskar refused ending an affair with Maren, who jumped as suicide attempt. The Brendels consider the due consequences.
as Karin Brendel
as Oskar Brendel
as Matthias Brendel
as Maren Grothe
as Polizist Fred Keller
as Leo Volkmann
as Jens
as Dr. Rolf Brunner
as Verena Kamp
as Gero Volkmann
as Doris Grothe
as Heinz Sauer
as Hans Carstens
