Leonore Seliger grows up in the provinces of northern Germany in the 1960s. She’s an outsider, a non-conformist, a rebel. She finds solace in Clara, a pen pal from East Germany. In a smoky youth club in Osnabrück, Leonore discovers the music of the Beatles; after graduating from high school, she learns about free love in England. While she is in Frankfurt during the German Autumn, studying and attracting the attention of the police because of a fatal affair, Clara is in East Berlin, preparing for a major assignment. By order of the Ministry for State Security, she is to go to the West to keep her eyes open for her comrades.
Right before leaving East Germany, Clara gives birth to a daughter and is forced to make an almost impossible decision. Fate brings the two women, who are united by a secret, back together again. Decades later, a young woman uncovers this secret and sets out on a disturbing journey into the past.
