In a collapsing East Germany, two devoted sisters face painful ideological rifts and long buried family wounds, forcing them to confront what love and loyalty truly demand.
Germany 1987. Two sisters and their grown-up children find themselves on different sides of the political fence in a rapidly disintegrating East Germany. Margot is a major in the state security service (Stasi), Lotte is in the opposition.
We meet the women in the chaotic years between 1987-1990 as they fight for their ideals. A third sister, believed drowned years before, turns up in the West with a secret to tell on the eve of the fall of the Wall.
A poignant look at the Berlin Wall's fall and its aftermath.