Tidligere CIA-agent Sam Boyd ernærer sig nu ved industrispionage. Da CIA vil udveksle den russiske spion Pyiotr med en fangen amerikansk spion beder de Sam stå for sagen. Udvekslingen går helt galt og pludselig er Sam og Pyiotr på flygt sammen fra både CIA og KGB, der helst så begge agenter kulet ned i en etværelses med låg.
Col. Jack Knowles bliver sat til at bevogte grænsen mellem Tjekkiet og Vesttyskland. På den anden side af grænsen har vi Col. Valachev. Begge er krigsveteraner, begge er blevet gjort mere eller mindre unødvendige af Glasnost og afkølingen af den kolde krig, så da de to støder hovederne sammen eskalerer en lille konflikt hurtigt til noget, der er tættere på en krigstilstand!
Familien Ratcliffe er en familie i 1960'ernes England. De er kommunister, og da hr. Ratcliffe tilbydes et job i DDR, flytter hele familien om bag jerntæppet. Men omstillingen fra Yorkshire til Østtykland er ikke uden problemer.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.
An adventures of a Berlin family spending summer in haunted house.
1949. Grafenberg in Brandenburg shortly before the foundation of the GDR. Here lives Michel Hollmann and works in roadmaking. His purpose in life are his wife Lotte and the two children Gerda and Heinz, for whom he is reconstructing a summerhouse into a “nest”. In Grafenberg, his siblings are living as well: His brother Karl, the mayor, and sister-in-law Edith, who works in a textile factory, with their son Jürgen. Edeltraut, his sister, has married the lamp fabricant Berthold Bennert and leads a well-off life. They as well have a son: Harald. Part of the family are further sister Hanna and brother-in-law Hermann, who is a fisherman on one of the local lakes and conducts a tenacious private war against old Stegewald and his presumptive prince-electoral rights. They are living their lives with their large and small conflicts, with different intentions, and yet remain connected always.
