Irma Krause

Following an unhappy childhood, in which her father and two brothers are killed during the war, Irma Krause is left in the care of a callous and unloving mother. At university she meets Gustav Adler and they enter into a passionate affair and become involved with a growing dissident movement culminating in an uprising in East Germany in June 1953. Following the suppression of the uprising Irma is arrested by the dreaded Stasi and she learns that Gustav has betrayed her. She vows that one day she would have her revenge ...