Christa Andres runs a home for troubled girls. With great dedication, she tries to help girls who have gone astray return to a normal life. She takes special care of Erika, who works as a prostitute and one day runs away from the home. Christa sets out to search for the girl in the red-light district. In doing so, she is haunted by the shadows of her own past. The educator herself used to work as a prostitute. When she meets her former pimp, he tries to exploit his knowledge in a perfidious way and blackmail Christa...
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Barbara Rütting
Christa Andres
Loni von Friedl
Erika Schöner
Hansjörg Felmy
Max
Luise Ullrich
Frau Diethelm
Fred Tanner
Dr. Borner
Carola Rasch
Bessie
Margot Medicus
Barbara
Helga Sommerfeld
Helene
Iris Erdmann
Hilde
Renja Gill
Anni
Elisabeth Roth
Steffi
Gabriele Adam
Vera
Heidi Pawellek
Paula
Brit von Thiesenhausen
Ruth
Michael Paryla
Fritz Schmoll
