In her second feature film, Helke Misselwitz, who directed some of DEFA Studio’s most intriguing and sensitive documentaries, assembles a cast culled from Germany’s finest contemporary stage and film actors. Ramona Schneider, nicknamed "Little Angel" (Lothar), is a hypersensitive woman obsessed with the dark side of life who leads a lonely and inconspicuous existence in an apartment near the Ostkreuz train station in East Berlin. One day, through a grotesque coincidence, she meets the roguish and handsome Andrzej (Pazura), a Polish dealer of bootleg cigarettes with connections to Berlin’s underworld. The two fall in love and, for a short time, Ramona’s gloom begins to lift before a tragic descent from the heights of her unexpected happiness intervenes.