Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand

Grischa and Heinrich are actors in West Berlin, who become a couple after spending a night together backstage. Soon, however, Heinrich’s desire to have children drives a wedge between them. Grischa is involved at the margins of the women’s movement and initiates a project surveying working women about their everyday life, abortion, and domestic violence. Heinrich, on the other hand, still mourns the unrealised utopia of the student movement and sinks into self-pity and lethargy. Grischa doesn’t believe he could handle the responsibility of a child. But then she becomes pregnant. (Berlinale)