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1989, on the cusp of the Velvet Revoluition, Marie and her husband Viktor return home in Prague after years of exile. After a car accident, Marie wakes up from a coma with no trace of Viktor.

HBO Europe presents The Sleepers, an espionage drama that takes place at the end of 1989 in Czechoslovakia when the Soviet Empire was crumbling. In the midst of the Velvet Revolution, which brought 40 years of Moscow's dominance in the Central-European country to an end, an ordinary woman gets caught between the two worlds of State Security and the dissidents. She is gradually forced to uncover unexpected secrets kept by both.—HBO Europe

Marie (Tatiana Pauhofová) and her political dissident husband Viktor (Martin Mysicka) fled Communist Czechoslovakia 12 years ago. Now it is 1989, change is in the air and they take advantage of an amnesty to return home. But soon after they arrive, they're hit by a car: when Marie wakes, her husband has disappeared, and nobody seems to know anything about him. Where is Viktor?