Rita is seduced into the terrorist movement through her sense of justice and her love for Andi. When the movement begins to fall apart, she goes underground, hiding out in East Germany where she assumes a new identity with the help of a Stasi Secret Service agent and makes a new friend. A report on West German television blows Rita’s cover, however, and she must disappear again. Ultimately, her past catches up with her, just as the Berlin Wall falls and a new era begins.