Sarah Neumann

Dave is working hard to make it big as a footballer, but his part-time supermarket job that he needs to help support his mother and little sister interferes with his training. When the teenager receives a tempting but suspicious offer to make fast money, he can’t resist.

GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.

Dave is working hard to make it big as a footballer, but his part-time supermarket job that he needs to help support his mother and little sister interferes with his training. When the teenager receives a tempting but suspicious offer to make fast money, he can’t resist.

Dave is working hard to make it big as a footballer, but his part-time supermarket job that he needs to help support his mother and little sister interferes with his training. When the teenager receives a tempting but suspicious offer to make fast money, he can’t resist.

GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.

GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.