October 1961: Germany is a divided country. Two months after the construction of the Wall in Berlin, the security within the East gets tightly locked down. For the residents of a tiny village directly on the border, the new situation is difficult to bear. Impatient with the villagers reluctance to fall in line, Jutta Marx, who works for…October 1961: Germany is a divided country. Two months after the construction of the Wall in Berlin, the security within the East gets tightly locked down. For the residents of a tiny village directly on the border, the new situation is difficult to bear. Impatient with the villagers reluctance to fall in line, Jutta Marx, who works for the Communist Party, decides to take matters into her own hands. She also has another pressing issue a secret agent that had just aided two young East Germans in their escape to the West must be stopped. That means trouble for mayor Manni Lantz, who despit