Jürgen Holtz

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

The upholsterer Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Mrs. Wellinek and her husband, as well as the German-Russian Jewgenia have a lot of things that one needs to live: food, drink, an apartment. What they don't have is...