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Synopsis:
a play for live actors and video, is based on a true story of life before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is rooted in the historical reality of communist East Germany, where more than one in every twenty adult citizens were enlisted as unofficial collaborators to spy on their colleagues, friends, and relatives. Karin Berger has been fighting the repressive communist regime in East Germany for much of her life, even though her father, General Wolf Neidermann is a prominent officer in the secret police, the Stasi. At the time the play opens, Karin has been betrayed to the authorities and has been put in prison. Karin's faithful husband, Walter, is raising their teenaged daughter, Erika. Karin is freed when the communist regime falls. As a member of the new, democratically elected German parliament, she leads a successful crusade to open up the surveillance files on individual citizens compiled by the Stasi. When she reads her own file, she discovers the shocking and unexpected identity of her chief informant. The BergersKarin, Walter, and Erikaand those closest to them, including Karin's father Wolf and her friend and fellow dissident, Anja, are ripped apart by both the betrayal itself and the fallout after its discovery. The ensuing tragedy explores the psychological and emotional cost of living in a society built on an elaborate framework of deceit, the consequences of betrayal, the price of knowledge, the impossibility of forgetting, and the difficulty of forgiving.