The Dove on the Roof

On a construction site in the south of the GDR, where thousands of apartments are being built in modern prefabricated slab construction, Linda Hinrichs, a young and unmarried construction manager from Mecklenburg, gets to know two men better: One is Daniel, a student whose spontaneity appeals to her. During a dance, for example, he asks for donations for Vietnam and sometimes strikes out when he is accused of putting the money in his own pocket. On the other hand, Linda meets construction brigadier Hans Böwe, a bandwagoner who has helped build new things in many places in the GDR, but has never found a real home. Böwe proposes to her - and gets drunk when Linda doesn't immediately agree to him. Will she herself one day become as unsettled as him? And what do such big words as happiness and security actually mean in a reality that is not at all romantic? (Source: The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946-1992)