Andreas Kersten

In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume. But: Paul lives in the GDR, behind the most annoying border in the world. His plan is impossible by legal means. So he has to prepare an escape.

Two scientists make a discovery of unimaginable proportions. But what should they do with it? Pollux moves between dystopia and utopia and presents an ethical dilemma: should one share a world-shattering invention with a society that one does not trust to handle it well?

In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume. But: Paul lives in the GDR, behind the most annoying border in the world. His plan is impossible by legal means. So he has to prepare an escape.

Two scientists make a discovery of unimaginable proportions. But what should they do with it? Pollux moves between dystopia and utopia and presents an ethical dilemma: should one share a world-shattering invention with a society that one does not trust to handle it well?