Rita Vogt is seduced into the terrorist movement through her sense of justice and her love for Andi. A few years later, realizing that the movement is falling apart, she goes underground, hiding out in East Germany. With the help of the Stasi Secret Service Agent, Erwin Hull, she assumes a new identity in a working class world, where she is befriended by Tatjana. As much as Rita wants to fit in, Tatjana yearns to escape to the West. Nonetheless, they forge a deep friendship, which is brought to an abrupt end when a report on West German television blows Rita′s cover. Rita must disappear again, but this time a new name and city bring her luck. She meets Jochen, a unversity student working as a life guard. When he is posted to Moscow, he asks her to come with him. But in the end Rita′s past catches up with her - 1989 brings the fall of the Berlin Wall. East Germany is gone, and with it, her new life.