A woman in East Berlin uses her many socialist duties (one involves the composing of letters meant to keep the machine working with just a touch of sarcasm to lubricate the gears) to cope with the fact that her husband has defected to the west, leaving her to raise her children in Communist controlled East Germany. After accepting an award for her service to the German Democratic Republic, she stumbles upon a unification rally being attended by her now grown son, which leads to fainting and a coma lasting several months. Upon recovery, the doctor instructs the son that any shock could result in a relapse. The son then goes to great measures to create the illusion of a still strong GDR even after the collapse of the wall and the in pouring of the capitalist west. This movie was a great find and without the recommendation of "The Book" I'm not sure if I would have found it.
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