Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s and 60s in the GDR. They appear to be curious, vulnerable children and teenagers who also want to be cool (even though the word doesn't exist for them yet). They live in well-adjusted or resistant families. Some only in half because their father left for the West. Depending on their family background, they want or should help build the new, better Germany.
A multi-layered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Fifty buildings, a thousand rooms, bunkers, its own prisons—the Berlin headquarters of the former Ministry for State Security. Workplaces of desk criminals, hunters, surveillance officers. A labyrinth of human alienation.
