Joachim, a 22-year-old student who escaped the brutal dictatorship of East Germany in 1961, risks his life by returning to West Berlin to lead a daring rescue mission. To bypass the heavily guarded Berlin Wall and its lethal "Death Strip," he and a small team—including a fixer named Wolf, Italian companions Mimo and Gigi, and a revolutionary named Hasso—undertake the grueling task of digging a tunnel by hand. Working in coffin-sized spaces to avoid city infrastructure, they face the constant threat of discovery by border guards using dynamite to collapse underground passages. The mission's success hinges on whether the group has been infiltrated by a spy for the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, potentially turning their months of back-breaking labor into a deadly trap. This investigation reconstructs the high-stakes tension of Cold War escapes and the psychological pressure of state surveillance.
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