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It's 1957 in Berlin when Monika, who is in the final stages of pregnancy, reaches the apartment of the Schöllacks. She has nowhere to live and wants to take refuge in her former home, but her mother Caterina turns her away. Unmarried and single, Monika is harshly judged in hospital as well. When she awakes from the delirium of a child bed fever, she finds that Caterina has made arrangements for her new-born daughter Dorli, who is staying with foster parents - Monika's sister Helga and her husband Wolfgang.

Monika and Joachim still love one other, and Monika wants to make the relationship permanent. When Joachim makes a confession, however, marriage becomes out of the question. In desperation, Monika embarks on a film career, also hoping to give her daughter Dorli reason to be proud of her. But soon Monika senses that she can't be happy in the turbulent film business, and causes a scandal.

Monika establishes a blues band with Freddy, and their first gigs are a success. It comes as a shock when Eva is found unconscious with a serious head injury in Monika's apartment. It's not the jealous Fassbender who is arrested, however, but Joachim, because Eva is certain that he was in the apartment at the time. Monika then questions whether Joachim could really commit such a crime, and sets out to find an alibi.