Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
Argentinian tango teacher Valentina Martino is not having an easy time of it. Her ex-husband evaded taxes, so she has to stay in Cornwall illegally. She lives there with her niece Elena. To earn money, Valentina works as a domestic help. However, this is not easy, as her employer Jack Rukin, who earns his living as a writer, has just been widowed. There are signs of turbulence when Henry, Jack's neighbor and arch-enemy, makes a bid for Valentina.
Ada and Christoph are standing at the parting of their ways. The assumed closeness between them turns out to be an illusion. Christoph cheats on Ada. While Ada escapes into her own world of thought she recognizes the central problem of their relationship and obtains certainty that she will not stand up against it…
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
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