Robert Eckert

The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth is a young - middle aged aristocratic woman, that is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her. A strange ambivalent relationship develops between the two women.

A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.

A zoologist has housed a wide variety of animals in his apartment and keeps himself busy with them. A pretty young secretary is at his side. Only the young man in the apartment next door is not so keen on the noise and solves the problem by breaking through the dividing wall.