A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. Based on "Gestern und Heute" by German playwright Christa Winsloe.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.

The observation of teachers and students at the Stuttgart evening high school raises the question of whether there are equal educational opportunities for all. Of an initial two hundred evening students, only 17 reach the set goal: the maturity exam, the Abitur, the ticket to university, a possible key to later happiness.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.