When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
Keywords: adultery , age-difference , baltic-sea , becoming-an-adult , berlin-germany , duel , life-planning , naivety , new-german-cinema , northern-germany , single-father , way-of-life