Erika Seipold is getting divorced after more than 30 years of marriage. The six-part series very successfully depicts the fate of a woman well over 50 who has been "dumped" from the perspective of the early 1970s, when it was still normal for wives not to have a career and, after a divorce, not only fell into an emotional hole but also had to endure existential fears. Her selfish children and largely unsympathetic environment offer little help; everywhere the protagonist encounters the stigma of being an older, single, supposedly useless member of society – a foreshadowing of the dark side of the cult of youth.

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Cast

Inge Meysel

Erika Seipold

Renate Schroeter

Brigitte Seipold

René Deltgen

Robert Seipold

Paul Edwin Roth

Dr. Frank Wegener

Eva Maria Meineke

Lilo Niklas

Kornelia Boje

Ingrid Sommer

Eva Maria Bauer

Frau Ludwig

Christina Schollin

Sigrid Seipold

Elke Aberle

Renate Klausner

Edda Seippel

Ilse Trappenberg