For a long time I believed that Erich was to blame for everything. And only now do I ask myself whether he wasn't a victim too, like Christa and all the others. Although it's hard for me to see the ones with the clubs as victims. The summer of the century, 1959. The friends Ruth and Christa are enjoying the last holidays before they graduate from high school. While bathing in the river, they meet Erich, who belongs to a group of free-church Christians. Both fall in love with the young man - and the fate of the girlfriends changes forever...