It's the 1980s, Germany is divided into West Germany and East Germany. In Potsdam lives the music-obsessed Mike, who dreams of a future as a successful musician and a life in freedom alongside his friends Floyd and Porni. Mike's dreams seem to be within reach when he receives acceptance for a music program in Berlin: finally leaving the province, starting a new life in the metropolis, and music is set to play the leading role in his life. However, Mike soon learns what it means to survive as a free spirit in the totalitarian system of East Germany. Along with this, he experiences his first great love and the pain of losing her, an insatiable longing for freedom, the loss of a good friend who flees to West Germany, and the ever-present limiting boundaries of East German bureaucracy that make it difficult for Mike to live the life of his dreams. Kay Lutter has a.