It’s 1985 and Germany is still separated into East Germany and West Germany.
While 15-year-old Ben is attending a sports boarding school in West Berlin, a few kilometres away 17-year-old Marc is suffering through the harsh East German education system. When Ben’s school is invited to a friendly competition in East Berlin, Marc believes his chance to flee to the West has finally arrived.
On a team photo of Ben’s school, Marc has discovered that he and Ben look so alike they could be twins. During the sports event, two friends keep Ben captive for a few hours while Marc travels to the West on Ben’s passport. In Marc’s naïve plan, Ben, being a “Wessi”, would have no problem getting back home. But that part of the scheme has gone badly wrong – no one believes Ben because they all think he’s Marc.
When Ben speaks out against the communist system, he’s taken to a work camp and treated like a criminal. Marc and his friends work with Ben’s friends to come up with a daring plan to get Ben out – over the Berlin Wall.
