Ripe Cherries

Brigadier Helmut Kamp is in his mid-forties and believes that he has got his life under control. He owns a house in Thuringia, has a loving wife and two adult daughters, and is regarded as an experienced foundation builder who is treated with respect in his workplace. But then things change at one go: His wife Elfriede tells him that she is pregnant for the third time. At the same time, Kamp has to go to the Baltic Sea where a nuclear power plant is about to be built. Then, shortly after giving birth to her third child, Elfriede dies in a car accident, and his daughter Ingrid moves in with him together with the newborn and her own little child because she broke up with her friend.