The year is 1998. Heinrich Jährig has just been released from his Berlin jail. Ten years before, when he was sentenced his prison term, he was a GDR citizen, he had a wife and a still unborn baby boy. Ten years after or so , nothing is the same, from the subway ticket machines to the currency in circulation, from the signs in English to video games. Heinrich's wife has a new companion and the former convict knows nothing about his son Rokko. Now that Berlin and Germany have reunited. mentalities have little to do with what he knew, he finds himself in another world. Will he manage to adapt?