W 1990 r., w trakcie skomplikowanego zjednoczenia obu Niemiec, pracownicy z tego samego okręgu byłej NRD zostali bezrobotni. Pewnego dnia odkrywają lokalizację tysięcy wschodnioniemieckich banknotów przeznaczonych do zniszczenia. Mają trzy dni na przejęcie ich i wymianę pieniędzy na markę niemiecką, zawierając umowę, która odmieni ich życie. Każdy ich zabiera tyle, ile jest w stanie unieść.
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.
In 1990 the head of the Treuhand, Hans-Georg Dahlmann, was targeted by the RAF. When he made Sandra Wellmann, mother of one son, his assistant, he had no idea what additional danger he was exposing himself to. Because Wellmann is doing common cause with RAF members Bettina Pohlmann and Klaus Gelfert and is supposed to provide them with information for the planned attack on Dahlmann.
In April 1991, Detlev Rohwedder, the head of Treuhand, the East German Privatization and Restructuring Agency, was assassinated in Dusseldorf. This documentary details the strange evidence recovered.
The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.
