Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth birthday because his father has told him the story of Icarus, and promised to take him on a sightseeing flight. When Matthias' father doesn't come home, he is devastated. He runs throughout the city, talks to his friend about the relationships of adults, looks for his father at his desk, and gets himself into conflict with the police. As he sits alone on the roof of a house, he comes to the conclusion that Icarus didn't plummet to the earth because he didn't listen to his father, but rather because his father had forgotten him.
Peter Welz
as Mathias
Karin Gregorek
as Mutter
Peter Aust
as Vater
Hermann Beyer
as Onkel Jochen
Günter Junghans
as Kriminalpolizist
Rolf Hoppe
as Brigadier
Heidemarie Wenzel
as Erika Sandke
Günter Schubert
as Volkspolizist
Fred Delmare
as Nachbar
Carl Heinz Choynski
as Dieb
Willi Schrade
as Vaters Kollege
Ursula Staack
as Lehrerin
