Synopsis
Families of people murdered along the border of East and West Berlin tell their stories.“A two-year suspended sentence for firing the fatal shot. Imagine that.“ A compelling introduction in today’s Berlin to protagonist Irmgard B. mother of a son shot dead in 1986. In an oppressive, authoritarian state, the bereaved are also the victims. Even now, more than a quarter of a century on, they still suffer the trauma of their loss. One woman protagonist doesn’t know what happened to her son’s corpse; another still doesn’t know how and why her husband drowned at the former border; a third discovers photographs in a Stasi case file and is confronted for the first time with images of the dead body of his father. The film’s climax arrives in the form of a meeting between a marksman and the son of his victim.
