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At the same time, a new engineer arrives: Kati Klee ( \u003cstrong\u003eKrystyna Stypułkowska\u003c\/strong\u003e ), a lone woman in an all-male environment. As a love triangle develops between Klee, Balla and Horrath, tensions both personal and political threaten to boil over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA nuanced exploration of the everyday workings of socialism in practice, \u003cem\u003eTrace of Stones\u003c\/em\u003e was perceived as an attack on the GDR's national ideology and withdrawn from cinemas in 1966. Frank Beyer did not direct another feature film until 1975, while \u003cem\u003eTrace of Stones\u003c\/em\u003e was suppressed until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 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