The 13-year-old Ursula Scheuner grows up as the only child of a petty-bourgeois family in the Adenauer era. Increasingly, puberty leads the girl into conflict with her parents and their surroundings.
A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins...