The two begin an sordid affair that lasts through that spring and the summer when he is off from school. Michael returns to her every day after school, rejecting the clear interest of girls his own age. He persuades her to tell him her name - Hanna. When he returns to apologize a few days later, she seduces him. However, when she catches him spying on her as she dresses, he runs away in shame. She is matter of fact with him but asks him to escort her to work on the tram line. After he recovers as the spring season arrives, he returns to the apartment building to deliver a bouquet of flowers to Hanna at her apartment and thanks her. All Michael can do is examine his stamps and bide his time. Michael is diagnosed with scarlet fever and must rest at home for the next three months. Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), the tram conductor, comes in and assists him in returning home. An unhappy-looking teenage Michael (David Kross) gets off but wanders around the streets afterwards, finally pausing in the entryway of a nearby apartment building where he starts to vomit. The film flashes back to another tram in early 1958 Neustadt, West Germany during a rainy winter day. The two part awkwardly, and as Michael watches a Berlin S-Bahn pass by outside. The movie begins in 1995 Berlin, where a well-dressed man named Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) is preparing breakfast for a young brunette woman named Brigitte (Jeanette Hain) whom has stayed the night with him.
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