Carla (Jutta Hoffmann), a young and idealistic teacher at the start of her career, goes against the routine opportunism of her hypocritical and small-minded surroundings, when she discovers her students are hiding thei...展开r true thoughts and feelings. Her superiors view her actions with unease and eventually step in to discipline Carla, who is beginning to lose faith in her cause. This film, written by renowned author Ulrich Plenzdorf, was labeled nihilistic, skeptical and hostile by officials. It became one of the dozen East German films banned in 1965. Only in 1990, after the fall of the Wall, was Carla screened in cinemas